29th July 2008, 04:30 PM
Hi All
Another of Mark's media savvy moments from the Sydney Morning Herald:
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The barbecue is strictly a male domain, and now we know why.
Put it down to instinct, says Dr Mark Horton, head of the department of archaeology and anthropology at the University of Bristol, in Britain.
"Our early ancestors were doing exactly the same thing hundreds of thousands of years ago," said the visiting scholar.
"It is not surprising that even today, some of our behaviour may be influenced by instincts that developed through our long evolutionary history.
"This may include ? why men like cooking meat outside on their barbecue, but women still feel they have a role preparing vegetables."
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I'm sure that this is all based on real scientific evidence and is not the cheap pseudo-scientific self-publicising trick perpetrated by a media obsessed, celebrity chasing individual the newspaper made it out to be.
Steven