Re: smell of savannah
- From: "Paul Crowley" <slkwuoiutiuytciuyik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:18:34 -0000
"Paul Crowley" <slkwuoiutiuytciuyik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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