Re: Hominins Ate Tubers And Bulbs

I looked for older posts about tubers and roots. I have found this
post:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.anthropology.paleo/browse_thread/thread/128a6d5fa1d90ecc/3ae0461b55d34e65?lnk=gst&q=nowicki+tubers&rnum=2#3ae0461b55d34e65

Excerpt:

Making the shelters and digging edible
tubers with digging sticks was hard work that was
made possible by gradually progressing hairlessness
and sweating.

A quadrupedal monkey could also make a pile of sticks
at the sleeping place, but it could carry only one small
stick in its jaws. A bipedal hominid could haul much
bigger sticks and branches in its hands, so it was much
better maker of the secure shelters.

This scenario explains the origins of hairlessness and
sweating but it does not explain the origins of bipedalism.







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