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Anthropology

Marthe48

(19,042 posts)

6. Too true

Reply to LuvLoogie (Reply #5)

Sat Aug 19, 2023, 10:50 AM

Aug 2023

Humans are an adaptive, and opportunistic species.

Most people around me are automatically squeamish about eating human flesh, or ghoulishly fascinated. I don't like discussing the episodes in history where it looks like people ate people. Or anything they could catch. Really unfortunate that everything has to eat something else to survive.

The other day, I thought that maybe in a perfect world, our fuel would come from some other source than from eating. Well, maybe the whole cycle is the most important brake on life.

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I've been watching documentaries on You Tube [View all] Marthe48 Aug 2023 OP

On a tangent, I think that the first persons were not human LuvLoogie Aug 2023 #1

I picked the word creature in my post Marthe48 Aug 2023 #2

And the arising self preservation in our avoidance LuvLoogie Aug 2023 #5

Too true Marthe48 Aug 2023 #6

Fall of Civilizations is a great series Kali Aug 2023 #3

I've always found comfort in reading about the distant past Marthe48 Aug 2023 #4

The history of the Universe EmeraldCoaster Aug 2023 #7

Thanks for the idea Marthe48 Aug 2023 #8

IN The Old Testament ... mntleo2 Sep 2023 #9