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| Marc Verhaegen |
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:56 am |
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There was a documentary series that talked about human senses. Those
senses are written deep into our brain. They are the echoes of our past.
Most importantly, some of them are unexplained till this day. Well, I can
offer an explaination.
Smell. They researched what is the most annoying smell for humans.
They would use this smell to disperse crowd. After thorough research they
found out that by far the most annoying smell is the smell of an animal
corpse laying on a hot savanna sun. I mean, NOWAY we would smell that, and
especially NO WAY we would eat it. I'm telling you, people, we NEVER ate
this. We ALWAYS ate burned meat (or raw shellfish).
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| Paul Crowley |
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:12 pm |
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"Marc Verhaegen" <fa204466@skynet.be> wrote in message
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Quote: There was a documentary series that talked about human senses. Those senses are written
deep into our brain. They are the echoes of our past. Most importantly, some of them are
unexplained till this day. Well, I can offer an explaination.
Smell. They researched what is the most annoying smell for humans. They would use this
smell to disperse crowd. After thorough research they found out that by far the most annoying
smell is the smell of an animal corpse laying on a hot savanna sun.
The smell of a rotting corpse is the same, no
matter whether on the savanna or on the sea-
shore. Of course, heat will make it worse, and
so will lack of wind. I doubt if low-altitudes
are any better than the high savanna, in this
respect, taken as a whole.
But why is such a smell so repulsive?
It does not need to be that bad to discourage
us from eating the rotting flesh. I suggest
that it's a message to stay clear -- there will
be dangerous scavengers in the vicinity,
possibly including crocodiles. Those hominids,
who found the smell so objectionable that
they moved away, survived better and we are
their descendants. The ones that could
tolerate it, did not do so well.
The dung of large cats is also exceedingly
repulsive to humans (and to many other
species) -- for, I suggest, obvious reasons.
Paul. |
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| Paul Crowley |
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:18 am |
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"Paul Crowley" <slkwuoiutiuytciuyik@slkjlskjoioue.com> wrote in message
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Quote: The smell of a rotting corpse is the same, no
matter whether on the savanna or on the sea-
shore. Of course, heat will make it worse, and
so will lack of wind. I doubt if low-altitudes
are any better than the high savanna, in this
respect, taken as a whole.
But why is such a smell so repulsive?
Another reason why it is so repulsive is to
force us to dispose of our own dead in such
a way as to eliminate all the smell -- by deep
burial, burning, floating out to sea, using
vultures or the like.
Human (and hominid) societies, that did not
dispose of their dead in an effective manner,
became attractive to scavengers and then
predators, and left no descendants.
Paul. |
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| Rich Travsky |
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:34 pm |
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Marc Verhaegen wrote:
Quote:
There was a documentary series that talked about human senses. Those
senses are written deep into our brain. They are the echoes of our past.
Most importantly, some of them are unexplained till this day. Well, I can
offer an explaination.
Smell. They researched what is the most annoying smell for humans.
They would use this smell to disperse crowd. After thorough research they
found out that by far the most annoying smell is the smell of an animal
corpse laying on a hot savanna sun. I mean, NOWAY we would smell that, and
especially NO WAY we would eat it. I'm telling you, people, we NEVER ate
this. We ALWAYS ate burned meat (or raw shellfish).
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-- Mario
Just the sort of unsubstantiated and unscientific nonsense Mario falls for.
Huumans - and their ancestors - live on the savanna and did for some time.
It is completely unreasonable and unsupportable to project into the distant
past the *personal* likes and dislikes of a few current humans. |
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| Mario Petrinovich |
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:13 am |
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Rich Travsky:
Quote: Marc Verhaegen:
There was a documentary series that talked about human senses.
Those
senses are written deep into our brain. They are the echoes of our past.
Most importantly, some of them are unexplained till this day. Well, I can
offer an explaination.
Smell. They researched what is the most annoying smell for
humans.
They would use this smell to disperse crowd. After thorough research they
found out that by far the most annoying smell is the smell of an animal
corpse laying on a hot savanna sun. I mean, NOWAY we would smell that,
and
especially NO WAY we would eat it. I'm telling you, people, we NEVER ate
this. We ALWAYS ate burned meat (or raw shellfish).
... -- Mario
Just the sort of unsubstantiated and unscientific nonsense Mario falls
for.
Huumans - and their ancestors - live on the savanna and did for some time.
It is completely unreasonable and unsupportable to project into the
distant past the *personal* likes and dislikes of a few current humans.
Well, it was a scientifical research, and if you don't believe me
(and why should you?), take a search about this yourself. The mere object of
research was a HUMAN sense of smell, not sense of smell of few individuals
(because that way this whole thing wouldn't have a sense). Bad smell is
supposed to disperse crowd, not few individuals.
The very fact that we lived in savanna is of most importance. It
isn't strange that the worst smell comes from savanna. Actually, the
assotiation of humans with some smell which comes from savanna is good proof
that we lived in savanna. I am claiming that humans, not only lived in
savanna, I am the one that claims that humans CREATED savanna. The only
thing that they never did in savanna was eating raw meat. This is what they
didn't do in savanna. -- Mario |
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| spiznet |
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:09 am |
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On Mar 20, 9:13 am, "Mario Petrinovich"
<mario.petrinov...@zg.htnet.hr> wrote:
Quote: Rich Travsky:
Marc Verhaegen:
There was a documentary series that talked about human senses.
Those
senses are written deep into our brain. They are the echoes of our past.
Most importantly, some of them are unexplained till this day. Well, I can
offer an explaination.
Smell. They researched what is the most annoying smell for
humans.
They would use this smell to disperse crowd. After thorough research they
found out that by far the most annoying smell is the smell of an animal
corpse laying on a hot savanna sun. I mean, NOWAY we would smell that,
and
especially NO WAY we would eat it. I'm telling you, people, we NEVER ate
this. We ALWAYS ate burned meat (or raw shellfish).
... -- Mario
Just the sort of unsubstantiated and unscientific nonsense Mario falls
for.
Huumans - and their ancestors - live on the savanna and did for some time.
It is completely unreasonable and unsupportable to project into the
distant past the *personal* likes and dislikes of a few current humans.
Well, it was a scientifical research, and if you don't believe me
(and why should you?), take a search about this yourself. The mere object of
research was a HUMAN sense of smell, not sense of smell of few individuals
(because that way this whole thing wouldn't have a sense). Bad smell is
supposed to disperse crowd, not few individuals.
The very fact that we lived in savanna is of most importance. It
isn't strange that the worst smell comes from savanna. Actually, the
assotiation of humans with some smell which comes from savanna is good proof
that we lived in savanna. I am claiming that humans, not only lived in
savanna, I am the one that claims that humans CREATED savanna. The only
thing that they never did in savanna was eating raw meat. This is what they
didn't do in savanna. -- Mario
"Do you smell that?
I love the smell of savanna in the morning!!
It smells like victory!"
(This comment could set the ng back 10 years but...) |
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| rmacfarl |
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:28 pm |
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On Mar 21, 2:09 am, "spiznet" <m...@spiznet.com> wrote:
Quote: On Mar 20, 9:13 am, "Mario Petrinovich"
mario.petrinov...@zg.htnet.hr> wrote:
Rich Travsky:
Marc Verhaegen:
There was a documentary series that talked about human senses.
Those
senses are written deep into our brain. They are the echoes of our past.
Most importantly, some of them are unexplained till this day. Well, I can
offer an explaination.
Smell. They researched what is the most annoying smell for
humans.
They would use this smell to disperse crowd. After thorough research they
found out that by far the most annoying smell is the smell of an animal
corpse laying on a hot savanna sun. I mean, NOWAY we would smell that,
and
especially NO WAY we would eat it. I'm telling you, people, we NEVER ate
this. We ALWAYS ate burned meat (or raw shellfish).
... -- Mario
Just the sort of unsubstantiated and unscientific nonsense Mario falls
for.
Huumans - and their ancestors - live on the savanna and did for some time.
It is completely unreasonable and unsupportable to project into the
distant past the *personal* likes and dislikes of a few current humans.
Well, it was a scientifical research, and if you don't believe me
(and why should you?), take a search about this yourself. The mere object of
research was a HUMAN sense of smell, not sense of smell of few individuals
(because that way this whole thing wouldn't have a sense). Bad smell is
supposed to disperse crowd, not few individuals.
The very fact that we lived in savanna is of most importance. It
isn't strange that the worst smell comes from savanna. Actually, the
assotiation of humans with some smell which comes from savanna is good proof
that we lived in savanna. I am claiming that humans, not only lived in
savanna, I am the one that claims that humans CREATED savanna. The only
thing that they never did in savanna was eating raw meat. This is what they
didn't do in savanna. -- Mario
"Do you smell that?
I love the smell of savanna in the morning!!
It smells like victory!"
(This comment could set the ng back 10 years but...)- Hide quoted text -
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Teuku Jacob is right! Microcephalics are alive and well - and living
in Croatia...
Ross Macfarlane  |
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| Mario Petrinovich |
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:18 pm |
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rmacfarl:
Quote: Teuku Jacob is right! Microcephalics are alive and well - and living
in Croatia... Ross Macfarlane
You are in my killfile. -- Mario |
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| spiznet |
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:26 pm |
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On Mar 20, 5:28 pm, "rmacfarl" <rmacf...@alphalink.com.au> wrote:
Quote: On Mar 21, 2:09 am, "spiznet" <m...@spiznet.com> wrote:
On Mar 20, 9:13 am, "Mario Petrinovich"
mario.petrinov...@zg.htnet.hr> wrote:
Rich Travsky:
Marc Verhaegen:
There was a documentary series that talked about human senses.
Those
senses are written deep into our brain. They are the echoes of our past.
Most importantly, some of them are unexplained till this day. Well, I can
offer an explaination.
Smell. They researched what is the most annoying smell for
humans.
They would use this smell to disperse crowd. After thorough research they
found out that by far the most annoying smell is the smell of an animal
corpse laying on a hot savanna sun. I mean, NOWAY we would smell that,
and
especially NO WAY we would eat it. I'm telling you, people, we NEVER ate
this. We ALWAYS ate burned meat (or raw shellfish).
... -- Mario
Just the sort of unsubstantiated and unscientific nonsense Mario falls
for.
Huumans - and their ancestors - live on the savanna and did for some time.
It is completely unreasonable and unsupportable to project into the
distant past the *personal* likes and dislikes of a few current humans.
Well, it was a scientifical research, and if you don't believe me
(and why should you?), take a search about this yourself. The mere object of
research was a HUMAN sense of smell, not sense of smell of few individuals
(because that way this whole thing wouldn't have a sense). Bad smell is
supposed to disperse crowd, not few individuals.
The very fact that we lived in savanna is of most importance. It
isn't strange that the worst smell comes from savanna. Actually, the
assotiation of humans with some smell which comes from savanna is good proof
that we lived in savanna. I am claiming that humans, not only lived in
savanna, I am the one that claims that humans CREATED savanna. The only
thing that they never did in savanna was eating raw meat. This is what they
didn't do in savanna. -- Mario
"Do you smell that?
I love the smell of savanna in the morning!!
It smells like victory!"
(This comment could set the ng back 10 years but...)- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
Teuku Jacob is right! Microcephalics are alive and well - and living
in Croatia...
Ross Macfarlane
You are in my savanna!! (Since people never went there!) |
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| Marc Verhaegen |
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:41 am |
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Op 19-03-2007 05:34, in artikel 45FE12BD.8F4D8B48@hotmMOVEail.com, Rich
Travsky <traRvEsky@hotmMOVEail.com> schreef:
Quote: Marc Verhaegen wrote:
There was a documentary series that talked about human senses. Those
senses are written deep into our brain. They are the echoes of our past.
Most importantly, some of them are unexplained till this day. Well, I can
offer an explaination.
Smell. They researched what is the most annoying smell for humans.
They would use this smell to disperse crowd. After thorough research they
found out that by far the most annoying smell is the smell of an animal
corpse laying on a hot savanna sun. I mean, NOWAY we would smell that, and
especially NO WAY we would eat it. I'm telling you, people, we NEVER ate
this. We ALWAYS ate burned meat (or raw shellfish).
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-- Mario
Just the sort of unsubstantiated and unscientific nonsense Mario falls for.
Said by a savanna idiot... :-D
Do you still believe, my boy, that our ancestors ran after wildebeest?
Nature 325:305-306, 1987
Origin of hominid bipedalism
.... it is highly unlikely that hominid ancestors ever lived in the savannas.
Man is the opposite of a savanna inhabitant. Humans lack sun-reflecting fur
(4) but have thermo-insulative subcutaneous fat layers, which are never seen
in savanna mammals. We have a water- and sodium-wasting cooling system of
abundant sweat glands, totally unfit for a dry environment (5). Our maximal
urine concentration is much too low for a savanna-dwelling mammal (6). We
need much more water than other primates, and have to drink more often than
savanna inhabitants, yet we cannot drink large quantities at a time (7- .
The fossils of our hominid ancestors or relatives are always found in
water-rich environments.
It is difficult to understand why most anthropologists keep believing in the
savanna theory (possibly because it goes back to Darwin), or why so many
anthropologists keep trying to seek the most improbable reasons for
bipedalism, while they should know there are much better explanations
(9-11). |
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