Greatest single circumstance that changed human life?

Jeremy · Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:23 am Post subject:

I have read that the original purpose for the domestication of wheat was for beer!

geo · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:16 am Post subject:

Humor is important, but also seems a natural extension of language and intelligence Many animals can be said to have a sense of playfulness, like this wolf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zmri42px8g

So, I would say the development of language ranks way, way, way up there. The neolithic revolution in which humans developed agriculture in many parts of the world simultaneously is way up there as well.

edit: added 'way, way'

Ophelia · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:20 am Post subject:

Hello Geo, welcome to Booktalk. Smile

Would you like to tell us a little about yourself by writing an introduction in the "Introduction" threads?

Grim · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:00 pm Post subject: Division of Stimuli and Memory

No other species can distinguish and remember the distinction.

Our memory places our past in our future, as we shape the world into what we what it to be.

Frank 013 · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 2:52 am Post subject:

What is the greatest single circumstance that changed the course of human life?

I have the answer… Cheetos!

they go good with beer!

Later


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