These monkeys make no sense
Shahar Dubiner is a PhD student at Tel Aviv University researching the physiological ecology of reptiles. This story is the result of watching too many climate projections before bed.
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Even before the applause had faded away, an old, balding rat was scurrying across the auditorium to overtake the raven who had given the talk.
“Couldn’t miss your talk, could I? Though actually, today, I had a personal interest in the subject. Your theories about the monkey cities are fascinating. Although I hope you know it’ll be an uphill climb to publish them. With fossil evidence of rats and ravens in these cities since antiquity, we’re biased to think we built them ourselves.”
“It certainly seems like bipedal monkeys did most of the work. But linking the monkeys’ extinction to our species’ rapid cognitive evolution … that’s a brave claim, and one directly relevant to my own research.”
