Word 244: Spatchcock
Likewise the mind: our meagre reasoning capacity is an afterthought, spatchcocked on to the ancestral systems that have the reins where practical decision-making is concerned.
spatchcock (v) 1: prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock; 2: interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story – Evolutionary Shortcomings
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