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bodies are built to feed our brains with high energy and oxygen for us to process extensive
information to obtain food and survive in our environment. And our environment is dictated by
geology and climate, a source of human frustration, since we cannot control either. In terms of
Scotsman James Hutton, rocks are eroded by climate and rain and washed into seas that are
raised by the process of mountain building in turn by the earths boiling mantle and colliding
craton pressures - hence sea shells on the Himalayas Mountains or Barberton / Kamhlabane
Complex. Look, for example, how sought after is the weather forecast on our news programs
and iPad apps.
Before I left South Africa I had done a lot of research on the comparative anatomy of the
spinal cord and of Chachma baboons (Papio Ursinus) to humans, trying to prevent stroke and
also paralysis after heart and vascular surgery. The Physiology Department Laboratory had
been setup with the help of the New England Primate Research Center of Harvard University
and was very sophisticated for the time. Harvard Medical School has received approximately
$10 million a year from the NIH to help fund the Center, where for example, vaccine research
for HIV has been done, but now is being closed down for various reasons. The NIH spends
close to $90 million a year on the eight primate research laboratories in the USA. I personally
could never have used dogs or cats and furthermore these (“us”) pets have an anatomy
completely different to humans and would have been unsuitable. Baboons were
psychologically easier to use, rationalized because of their meanness I had experienced and
being “them”. The baboons came from farmers that captured them raiding their corn fields and
after a period of isolation, because of the diseases they carry, we were able to use them.
Baboon the African Version of the Thinker
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