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  n (12) works against Alabama center Charles Bediako, while Alabama guard Jaden Bradley (0) watches during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt) As we hit the homestretch of college basketball season, Florida first-year basketball coach Todd Golden might feel compelled to put out a “Help Wanted” sign to alleviate the burden on his best player.  uniform going to consistently step up and throw 6-foot-11, do-everything Colin Castleton a life line? Golden knows it’s risky business to expect the senior forward from Daytona Beach-Lopez High to almost single-handedly push UF into the NCAA tournament . Still, the first-year Gators’ coach doesn’t seem to have much in the way of viable alternative options.verance

  Meat has played a starring role in the evolution of the human die t  Raymond Dart, who in 1924 discovered the first fossil of a human ancestor in Africa, popularized the image of our early ancestors hunting meat to survive on the African savanna. Writing in the 1950s, he described those humans as “carnivorous creatures, that seized living quarries by violence, battered them to death … slaking their ravenous thirst with the hot blood of victims and greedily devouring livid writhing flesh.” Eating meat is thought by some scientists to have been crucial to the evolution of our ancestors’ larger brains about two million years ago. By starting to eat calorie-dense meat and marrow instead of the low-quality plant diet of apes, our direct ancestor , Homo erectus, took in enough extra energy at each meal to help fuel a bigger brain. Digesting a higher quality diet and less bulky plant fiber would have  allowed these humans to have much smaller guts. The energy freed up as a res...