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Anyone here read "Neck of the Giraffe"?

He hypothesizes that cosmic ray bursts are responsible for mutational leaps in evolution.

This seems similar.

I thought Ford Prefect was responsible for this one.

That entire sequence is so absurd.

Leaves are money!

The timing does seem to roughly match first known tool use in Homo habilis, if my Googling serves me well.