Anthropoid augmentations

In this chapter, Dorothy braves lions (and tigers and bears); a dinosaur eats someone in Jurassic Park; and a proofreader gets a $7 raise. But mainly we consider how a new form of memory helped anthropoids avoid being eaten. When anthropoids faced a high level of volatility in their preferred foods, such as fruit, they had to make more foraging journeys to get enough to eat. Because they faced a severe threat of predation every time they did, these ancestors benefited from any reduction in the frequency of such excursions. So, they had to establish memories that limited foraging errors, and they had to do so quickly. New cortical areas provided this advantage, so anthropoids survived and thrived in a rapidly changing world teeming with predators.