January 2009
6 posts
Paleofantasies
In short, we have what the anthropologist Leslie Aiello called “paleofantasies.” She was referring to stories about human evolution based on limited fossil evidence, but the term applies just as well to nostalgia for the very old days as a touchstone for the way life is supposed to be and why it sometimes feels so out of balance.
Funny. I have these every waking day and hadn’t thought to give them a name…
“Why does my five-year-old have better eyesight and hearing than I do? This makes no sense to me. Your senses should get sharper with age, not worse. Why is it so gall-durn important that she’s able to see and hear the world so well, when she doesn’t even know what she’s looking at half the time? Don’t I, the protector of my brood, who’s supposed to fend off the sabre-tooth tigers attacks, need my eyes and ears more than my relatively helpless five-year-old, Mr. Evolutionary- Biology Man?”
—Design Flaws - Male Pattern Fitness
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I’m sure the kid’s got balls and then some (video here) but the only thing jumping out at me from this story is the fact that this dog will probably be put to death because some idiot left him loose.
