We See Everything Wrong

In Stanley Kubrik’s 2001: Space Odyssey, the dying White Man is seen raising his finger at the black slab, in the same way a young Adam reaches for God in DaVinci’s rendition.

Some of the Aborigines of Australia who still hunt and gather will throw away a killed animal if it doesn’t have enough fat to eat. It’s “rubbish.” Our hunting ancestors didn’t just hunt for meat—animal protein—they rather hunted for animal fat, because fat is a slow source of energy, and if you fill your belly with it, yo...