Weird Leonards in History: The Intuition Study

Abstract

Before the dawn of recorded history, our ber-great grandparents ran around the planet making crucial decisions on the fly. After extensive study of prehistoric arrowheads, pottery shards, bone fragments, and cave paintings, paleoanthropologists all emphatically agree: Our early ancestors in Swartkrans (Africa) and Choukoutien (China) did not adjust their Cave Program Object Memorandum (CPOM) to establish a multi-year study, costing several thousand she-goatsand an equivalent number of hand-crafted stone chopping tools, in order to determine the operational value of fire. The consensus among the academic communityis they just rubbed some sticks together and liked what they saw. Obviously, the happy human tribes that controlled this mystical light/heat thrived and advanced, while those who couldnt master the tool tended to be wetter, colder, and more miserableand less successful at ensuring their genetic material moved on to the next generation. Undoubtedly, a few of the early innovators went a little too far with fire experimentation and inadvertently removed their genes (or their eyebrows) from the pool.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2008
Accession Number
AD1016344

Entities

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  • Chris Quaid
  • Daniel R. Ward

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  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Air
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  • Geospatial Intelligence
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  • Archaeological Resource Survey
  • Educational Psychology
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  • Biotechnology