Errors about origins

             "intelligence" / "senses" / "cerebrum"


 Chauvinist `scientists' write the text-books - so they're full of chauvinist
 errors:-

 1 - That humans must have been "hunters" because owls and cats have forward-looking
 eyes and `binocular vision' - and so do we.

 The truth is - all arboreal (tree-living) animals have forward-looking eyes and
 `binocular vision' and most are eternal vegetarians.

 That, and our teeth-plan, tells us our ancestors ate fruit and insects. Not
 dinosaur-steaks!

 Meat-eaters - like cats and shark - need sharp, backleaning `sabres'. Animals
 like us, with some incisors for cutting veg and fruit, and lots of molars for
 grinding cereals / nuts etc, come from non-meat-eating stock.


 2 - That human intelligence means we "don't need" such a strong sense of smell
 - so we just "lost" it (well, nearly all of it).

 The truth is - even in the reptiles and earliest mammals the sense of smell
 inhabited the (then thin) skin of `cerebral cortex' - which was necessarily
 dedicated to identifying, analysing and remembering smells of places / dangers
 / friends / foes - etc.

 As primates began using and growing that `gray matter' (the only "thinking stuff"
 in the brain) for real thinking, we crowded-out much of the room other animals use
 for _really_ sensitive scenting.

 But, because the old connections to the "lizard brain", which still rules most of
 our actual decisions, are hard-wired-in, we're all deeply _emotionally_ affected
 by certain scents and perfumes -  as the ad-men know only too well.

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  http://www.perceptions.couk.com/genes1.html
  http://www.perceptions.couk.com/genes6.html

  http://www.perceptions.couk.com/conscious.html

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