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with the arrival of Sahelanthropus tchadensis and his usurpation of the coeval
Purgatorius, who had been vegan for tens of millions of years. By 2.5 million
years ago, descendants of Purgatorius and Sahelanthropus, gripped by protracted climate change-related impacts on availability of enough nutrient-rich
herbivorous raw food in Africa, had had sufficient time to work through the many
digestive tract complications stemming from pushing meat through a colon.
17
That this malignant malice spread rapidly will correlate with our species’ density
and distribution.
Hundreds of genetic and paleontological clues to the forensics of human violence have already yielded that tentative picture of our changeover and takeover.
This consisted of the imposition of design upon the relations of the sexes, relegation
of outcasts, amalgamation of tyrannies, and consolidation of that most pitiful of all
proclivities, the quest for power. Latin form was podir, posse, potëre, to be able, in
use from 842 through the fourteenth century, when it came to be applied as today.
The word power has no meaning in the cold vacuums of space. And it is certainly
not as etymologically interesting as the word hope.
The energy (warmth) of campfires and cooked food seems to have segued into
our warming of the entire planet, with the consequent dream of the cool air of the
Ice Ages. The last glaciers are likely to be worshipped, their passing (and Ötzi’s)
mourned as our species disappears, no weeklong Summits in Davos for world leaders and teenagers. A world that overnight shall have entered the Eutrophizoic Era
explodes within the imagination, with the alacrity of the ultimate pandemic.
Just short of that wasteland, by the number, the holy, immaculate, terrifying
inconceivable one, is the present widespread condition of consciousness apprehending the storylines of this last horror, at least for us. As we wade out into the
infernal dark, knowing there is no return and wondering if our evolution might
have been different. All the information gathering to come will certainly obsess
over this foundational conundrum, these last, hopeless conjectures. Did the question of our survivability arise 2.5 million years ago? Were alternative scenarios
discussed? Did anyone die happily? The heart of today would like to know, and
the answer is worth cherishing, as individuals, still breathing, still wondering, still
hoping, as if by nature, whether we have any chance of survival (Fig. 96.2).
17 See “How Humans Became Meat Eaters,” by Marta Zaraska, February 19, 2016, The Atlantic
Monthly, https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/when-humans-became-meateaters/463305/, Accessed February 17, 2020; see also, Primate Taxonomy, by Colin Groves,
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington., D.C., and London, 2001; and Handbook of the
Mammals of the World – Primates, Volume 3, Ed. by Russell A. Mittermeier, Anthony B. Rylands
and Don E. Wilson, 2013, Lynx Ediciones, Barcelona, Spain 2013. See also, Meat-Eating and
Human Evolution, Edited by Craig B. Stanford and Henry T. Bunn, Oxford University Press,
New York, 2001.This latter work presupposes that carnivory, either through hunting or scavenging
has been a crucial physiological necessity of H. sapiens, suggesting “When, why, and how early
humans began to eat meat are three of the most fundamental unresolved questions in the study of
human origins.”
96.5 Contemplating the End
with the arrival of Sahelanthropus tchadensis and his usurpation of the coeval
Purgatorius, who had been vegan for tens of millions of years. By 2.5 million
years ago, descendants of Purgatorius and Sahelanthropus, gripped by protracted climate change-related impacts on availability of enough nutrient-rich
herbivorous raw food in Africa, had had sufficient time to work through the many
digestive tract complications stemming from pushing meat through a colon.
17
That this malignant malice spread rapidly will correlate with our species’ density
and distribution.
Hundreds of genetic and paleontological clues to the forensics of human violence have already yielded that tentative picture of our changeover and takeover.
This consisted of the imposition of design upon the relations of the sexes, relegation
of outcasts, amalgamation of tyrannies, and consolidation of that most pitiful of all
proclivities, the quest for power. Latin form was podir, posse, potëre, to be able, in
use from 842 through the fourteenth century, when it came to be applied as today.
The word power has no meaning in the cold vacuums of space. And it is certainly
not as etymologically interesting as the word hope.
The energy (warmth) of campfires and cooked food seems to have segued into
our warming of the entire planet, with the consequent dream of the cool air of the
Ice Ages. The last glaciers are likely to be worshipped, their passing (and Ötzi’s)
mourned as our species disappears, no weeklong Summits in Davos for world leaders and teenagers. A world that overnight shall have entered the Eutrophizoic Era
explodes within the imagination, with the alacrity of the ultimate pandemic.
Just short of that wasteland, by the number, the holy, immaculate, terrifying
inconceivable one, is the present widespread condition of consciousness apprehending the storylines of this last horror, at least for us. As we wade out into the
infernal dark, knowing there is no return and wondering if our evolution might
have been different. All the information gathering to come will certainly obsess
over this foundational conundrum, these last, hopeless conjectures. Did the question of our survivability arise 2.5 million years ago? Were alternative scenarios
discussed? Did anyone die happily? The heart of today would like to know, and
the answer is worth cherishing, as individuals, still breathing, still wondering, still
hoping, as if by nature, whether we have any chance of survival (Fig. 96.2).
17 See “How Humans Became Meat Eaters,” by Marta Zaraska, February 19, 2016, The Atlantic
Monthly, https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/when-humans-became-meateaters/463305/, Accessed February 17, 2020; see also, Primate Taxonomy, by Colin Groves,
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington., D.C., and London, 2001; and Handbook of the
Mammals of the World – Primates, Volume 3, Ed. by Russell A. Mittermeier, Anthony B. Rylands
and Don E. Wilson, 2013, Lynx Ediciones, Barcelona, Spain 2013. See also, Meat-Eating and
Human Evolution, Edited by Craig B. Stanford and Henry T. Bunn, Oxford University Press,
New York, 2001.This latter work presupposes that carnivory, either through hunting or scavenging
has been a crucial physiological necessity of H. sapiens, suggesting “When, why, and how early
humans began to eat meat are three of the most fundamental unresolved questions in the study of
human origins.”
96.5 Contemplating the End