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Thursday, March 21, 2002
 
But somewhere along the way, all that changed, and somebody got hungry enough to eat a buffalo.


No doubt, it didn't take long for that industrious soul to realize that he could use a little help from his friends.

The story on ABC tells about how hunting led to organized, social societies. The most interesting part of this whole thing - to me - was the fact that there are still people studying this. For some reason I was under the impression that if it wasn't common sense it was at least well established that societies evolved becasue symbiosis between various families or loose groups provided economies of scale for both hunting and gathering.

Not only does the ABC site generally strike me as too animated, their stories seem to be too Disney-esque as well. I saw somewhere recently that they are reexamining their approach to news coverage. They need to. Regardless, I still won't watch. Peter Jennings was crass on 9/11/01.