Coltan Scrivner

And we're really good at it.

That would have never happened.

Like that cultural...

artifact would have never came about if we weren't curious about why are there boils on that person's body how can we stop that why did this person fall over and die mysteriously and we didn't realize for a long time we're like well it's witches it's whatever and we did try to come up with solutions right we came up with counter curses we came up with effigies or totems that would heal you or protect you we did try to come up with ways to heal things that we didn't understand

Now, if it was a visible injury, we would often have pastes that we put together, put on the wound.

And you do see chimps do that a little bit.

But when it came to things that we, as you said, like somebody just died and we don't know why.

Now with science, like the reason that got developed is because we were curious about that.

Like, why did this happen and what bad thing caused it and how can I stop that bad thing?

That's the essence of medicine, right?

Yeah, well, there were some gender differences there.

So men, this was done like the 80s by an anthropologist by the last name of Gregor.

Men were more likely to have bad dreams or scary dreams, nightmares about snakes and spiders.

So why would that be?

Or flying insects like poisonous insects?

If you live in the jungle, it's kind of hard to be prepared.

You don't have a weapon that is particularly good at dealing with poisonous insects or poisonous snakes.

You just have to find them and you can kill them with anything, but there's not like a real effective way of dealing with it.

The men would go out, of course, and they would hunt.

And that's the kind of thing that they would encounter that they were unprepared for.