His fears, his frustrations, the small joys provided by his dog, and his compassion for caregivers can bring one to tears. He has given us an extraordinary gift. Craig B. Stanford. Stanford resurrects and restructures a series of old arguments about the nature of human aggressiveness, hunting behavior, and human evolution. He convincingly argues that the origins of human intelligence are linked to the acquisition of meat.
Cognitive capacities are necessary for the strategic sharing of meat with group members.
Using three data sets from great ape studies, the early human fossil record, and ethnological information about human foraging societies, Stanford examines the nature of hunting, scavenging, and sharing meat in human evolution. Meat eating is about politics as well as nutrition, where meat is a valued resource and a focal point for power struggles, playing into the development of patriarchies and strategic alliances. Legally blind since age 11, Kleege uses her own life and observations to describe the generally negative stereotypes and social status of blindness. As a novelist, essayist, and translator, she provides a very readable, sometimes humorous, and often poignant assessment of what blindness means to the person who is blind and what it seems to mean to those around her. Blindness is really a continuum, not necessarily an absolute.