
The Forbidden Experiment
The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong
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Herodotus's Experiment - The Story of the Lamb and the Tortoise
Two babies raised silently on goat milk, after two years in isolation, spontaneously spoke the phrygian word for bread. It's a great story in itself but once you start trying to break it down thati truly scrumptious. The best reason to believe the account is to ask the old latin question, qui bono,. We talked about people who went searching for the original language and coincidentally concluded that it was the language they spoke in the first place. There are no phrygians any here in the chain of custody over Samtic. If one along the effort wins, egyptian claims of human primacy were dashed.
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