hunter-gatherer food storage social hierarchies

Food storage could support social hierarchies

Some hunter-gatherer societies could become settled and socially stratified without farming when food was abundant or could be stored. Reliable stores made it possible to remain in one place and accumulate resources rather than depend on constant movement.

Water from a sinking plate helps make magma

Where one part of Earth’s crust sinks beneath another, it carries water deep underground. That water makes the hot rock above it easier to melt. The magma that forms can then feed volcanoes at the surface.

A snapping shrimp can turn its smaller claw into a new weapon

Snapping shrimp have one oversized claw that closes fast enough to create a powerful underwater shock wave. If they lose it, the smaller claw can transform into a new snapping claw while the missing one regrows as the smaller type. The animal effectively switches which side carries its specialized weapon.

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Food storage could support social hierarchies

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