Humans are curious by nature
Humans are curious, like the monkeys we use to be I suppose. By nature have always been fascinated by the past. Many feel that unlocking our past can open doors to the future. Our history is brief in comparison with that of the earth, but yet no claims can be made that we are close to understanding our own human existence, or the roads we took in the past which led us to where we are today. In that light it would be foolish that we could hope to understand what happened on earth before our arrival, yet people do...The stories Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs by: Stephen Jay Gould and that of Kathy A. Svitil Nubian Diet Revealed at Last, each attempt to reach a scientific conclusion as to how these two chapters of history came to an end. Many attempts have been made towards research and understanding of these events in an attempt to draw from them a hypothesis on the events which took place prior to their results. Perhaps Gould stated it best in his essay when he stated that "we can never be completely sure that a hypothesis is right, though we may be able to show with confidence that it is wrong"(448). Scientist have come up with many theories as to why the rein of dinosaur rule of the earth stopped
"once upon a time" and in truth none of them can be proven factually at the moment. Svitil offers a similar approach. Her theory is that the Nubians where believed to use crop rotation (that's a different theory). This means that they would farm one crop and then another at a later time. The Nubians generally farmed sorghum and millet (C4 plants) followed by wheat and barley (C3 plants). She cut 3.25 inches of hair from 14 post-Meroe mummies, "each segment representing approximately two months' growth" (371) By studying samples of Nubian hair she managed to prove that the Nubians died after eating a harvest of C4 plants. Sorghum is low in vitamin B; a vitamin B deficiency can leave a person open to diseases such as pellagra. Thus this could have caused the end of that Civilization...But it's only a THEORY! These examples show the scientific approach of inferences and deductions which scientists use to theories on events such as the above two. -Gould, Stephen J. "Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs." 75 Readings Plus. Santi Buscemi & Charlotte Smith. United States: McGraw Hill, 1998. pp 448-454. But there is a drastic difference between the two events. There is little, if any
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