Giant Clams Fed Early Humans (Better to be a late human)

Live Science ^ | Aug 28, 2008 | Charles Q. Choi

[decimon]

Giant clams two feet long might have helped feed prehistoric humans as they first migrated out of Africa, new research reveals.

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Fossil evidence that the researchers uncovered suggests the stocks of these giant clams began crashing some 125,000 years ago, during the last interval between glacial periods. During that time, scientists think modern humans first emerged out of Africa, Richter said.

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[decimon]

ClamPing.

[Roccus]

What did they use to make cocktail sauce?

[Hi Heels]

So, then they had to immigrate to California for lemons and happy cow butter......

[ladtx]

During that time, scientists think modern humans first emerged out of Africa, and used their turkey fryers to fry the clams. Richter said.

[null and void]

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Geoducks?

[labette]

Ya beat me fair and square.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Oh poor old Ruben Clamzo...

Clamzo me boys, Clamzo!

[null and void]

The early bird gets worms...

[decimon]

What did they use to make cocktail sauce?

The clams?

[decimon]

Frisco slug?

[Roccus]

LOL!!!

It took me a sec.....

[Joe 6-pack]

Well of course. Even prehistoric humans knew you'd have to be foolish to take a trip without a pocketful of clams...

[Safetgiver]

If you read diarys from real people in the New Amsterdam Colonies (New York City), They talk of oysters the size of dinner plates. The brook trout were 14” long and highly sought after by the gentry.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Mmmmm.... Clam chowder...

[varmintman]

You don’t have to believe in evolution to comprehend that Elaine Morgan is probably right in thinking that humans originally lived in water. ASSUMING that to be the case, you’d have to assume the original human diet would have been some combination of shellfish and fruit.

[dblshot]

Leaving Africa, early humans ate some bad clams and turned white. Some humans still carry the gene that seels the bad clam taste. How else to explain Clamoto?

[CaptRon]

Must have had some monster chowder pots

[frithguild]

This kind of Giant Clam, tridacna costata

[frithguild]

[Clemenza]

Do the clam..Do the clam...take your baby by the hand...

[Clemenza]

Geoduck clams. Very popular in the Seattle area (I swear). Don’t know about Frisco...

[Cvengr]

"Giant clams two feet long might have helped feed prehistoric humans..."

Well, if the Indians helped feed the Pilgrims and we see what happened to them, is it really that far of a stretch?????......

[decimon]

Some sauce, some linguine...

[Tainan]

Clams got legs.....


obscure DC comics reference.

[decimon]

See post #6. You probably skipped past it before it downloaded.

[Tainan]

Yeah...I posted before reading the thread...lol. For some reason that comic has stuck in my head since I first saw it. I have been known to utter that phrase...Clams got legs!...and chuckle to no one in particular at dinners and buffets. Much to the worried concern of those around.

But occasionally...someone else will know the joke and reply...Now we have to kill you!

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

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[Ken H]

[CholeraJoe]

Who knew Molly Malone was a Neanderthal?

[Lee'sGhost]

From the headline I thought humans were fed TO the clams.

[decimon]

From the headline I thought humans were fed TO the clams.

The neandertals fed them to the clams.

[coconutt2000]

We still eat giant clams in the south pacific, although the really giant ones are rare now because they’re just so delicious.

[decimon]

...the really giant ones are rare now because they’re just so delicious.

If early humans gobbled them up then that would explain why.

[Coyoteman]

You don’t have to believe in evolution to comprehend that Elaine Morgan is probably right in thinking that humans originally lived in water.

Paleontologists and evolutionary biologists think that Morgan's ideas are both unsupported and silly, and generally ignore them.