Cannibal Myth-Busting.

Myth: Cannibals eat people.
Fact: Like everyone else, cannibals only resort to eating people when no other food is available. The majority of cannibals go their whole lives without ever having to consume a conspecific.

Myth: Cannibals scare people.
Fact: It's not in a cannibal's interest to scare a person. Scared people tend to be harder to catch. Fear also leads to a release of adrenaline which must be used up in a fight or a flight or it breaks down into a toxic foul substance which does not taste at all good. This is why the cat always plays before it kills.
You may be afraid of the concept of being eaten by a cannibal, but the actual act itself is fearless.

Myth: Cannibals eat small babies.
Fact: In the first six months of life babies produce a special chemical which makes them taste pretty awful, to discourage the fathers from eating them.

Myth: Autistic people are cannibals.
Fact: This is only a hypothesis which has been neither proven or disproved.

Myth: All cannibals are autistic.
Fact: Just like left handed people, homosexuals, or illicit drug users, cannibals can come from any background, can be any race, either sex, or have any disability. The only way the average cannibal differs from the average non-cannibal is the tendency to have a slightly larger head, teeth and brain, slightly more forward facing eyes, and slightly higher intelligence than non-cannibals.

Myth: Cannibals cannot love or be loved.
Fact: Cannibals breed, so what's going on there if it ain't love?

Myth: Cannibals catch men to eat by tying a woman to a tree as bait.
Fact: Not since homosexuals first evolved, which was before knots were invented.

Myth: Cannibals invented the see-saw.
Fact: This is not a myth.

Myth: You know where you stand with Cannibals.
Fact: Cannibals did not invent the refrigerator, but then hobbling works better and is better company too!

Happy Ausra Darling

Mani (pronounced like 'money') is the Sanskrit word for 'gem' and is the true origin of the word 'money', not from the temple of Moneta in Rome.

Before our ancestors began their love affair with fruit and shiny stones, 'mani' meant one of two things:

The Female Jewel or the Virgin Bride.

Back then it was 'No food? No Mani (hunny)!'

Now it is reversed: 'No money, no food.'

Hyper-nutrition as a driver for ASD

When you were an egg in your mummy's tummy when your grandmother was pregnant with your mother, your great-great grandmother, your great-grandmother, and your grandmother all sang a song to your mother, and that song was taught to your great-great grandmother by your great-great-great-great grandmother, you heard it, and it's encoding onto your 'junk dna' was reinforced. That song spanned six generations of women, sometimes it can span as many as ten generations.

Nothing new here, just a slightly more politically correct hypothesis for a possible 'cause' of autism than the one presented in the previous post.

Looking at this, this and now this, along with the baffling set of demographic correlates for ASD, one finds it hard to ignore the possibility that these correlates are all compatible with a streamlining of the diet, maybe over a small number of generations, giving rise to exploratory evolutionary changes in the human race.

The only thing that autistic people have in common is the triad of social impairments, which could be a fundamental requirement for exploratory evolution. As for the rest of the differences we find from one autistic individual to the next, there seems to be no end to the variation. As if mother nature is telling the human race to let it's hair down and find a new trend!

Not fussy, we swing 21 ways, 22 if you count 'none' as a kind of sex ;)

Many have asked why we always reduce the directions of sex into eating directions? Sure the whole male / female / parent / child shebang has 12 (or 18) dimensions compared the the 2 (or 3) dimensions of eating, but is that it? Really?

Oh dear? Centre of the universe again are we? Tut.

It's when you come to do the breeding directions for guys like these that you really need to look to the reductionist approach.

The eating directions of migration? Food moves. Whenever you move you are eating yourself ;)