[Dan Salter]

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

Beware of false association (statistically), Dan - I would hope that any scientist, even an undergraduate, would be ashamed of that lapse of logic ...
There is an association (between skull size (strictly, we can only assume that the brain in the skull was larger, and not necessarilly more efficient) and tool production) - you propose one interpretation. Another would be, 'Humans' brains got larger therefore they invented tools to hunt.' Carry that further, '.... they invented tools ...' not necessarily to hunt with .... Other causes are possible - for instance that they started doing crosswords but how could we ever test that thesis?

Sorry i was just quoting Ray mears scientist chappy on the first of the wild food series.