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Favorite Knife – Do Not Touch - Most butcher tools are not only well cared for, but butchers have a habit of selecting one or two knives as their favorites. These are often instruments the butcher uses for more than just a single purpose, and are knives which have a i"feell" the butcher is very comfortable with. If you serve an apprenticeship with a butcher, or just are there to help out on a temporary basis, heaven help you if you start using one of the butcher's favorite knives. It's like using someone's favorite tennis racquet or toothbrush. It just isn't done. One of life's little adventures is facing an enraged butcher who just happens to be holding a knife or a cleaver, and you've just dulled his favorite knife. Fairly or unfairly, butchers are sometimes stereotyped as being rather temperamental, so it's nice to know which knives can be touched and which should be left alone.
In other words, some species of human ancestor n— likely Australopithecus afarensis, whose best known representative is 3.2 million-year-old Lucy, the authors say n— not only had a hankering for meat, which scientists had not expected, but used tools to get it. That demonstrates cleverness, says Alemseged. It also shows that the butchers were capable of complex social behavior. They're sharing the landscape with dangerous scavengers such as hyenas, he says, and so some would have had to serve as lookouts. And because that landscape bore only pebbles, not rocks, they would have had to carry the stone tools several miles before using them. (See pictures of smart animals.)
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