Before Baker and Porter, they were Hunter and Gatherer
Baker Hall and Porter Hall: We all know them, love them, get lost in them, and indulge in erotic fanfiction of them from time to time. “But what you may not know is their deep and rich history of cultural evolution,” says anthropologist X. Cavator.
“It’s easy to look at these buildings standing tall and proud, Baker, Porter, Wean—actually, not Wean, Wean’s got nothing to be proud of—but it’s easy to look at them and feel they’ve always been that way. Yet, buildings are not the stalwart monuments we’ve always thought of them as. They can grow and change over time, much in the same way as human society does.” Indeed, recently uncovered evidence points to the evolution of Porter and Baker Hall mirroring that of humanity itself.
“When two different things evolve the same traits separately, we call that convergent evolution,” explains Cavator. “And that seems to be what happened here, in the case of Baker and Porter Hall. Before Baker and Porter, they were Hunter and Gatherer, and we believe they evolved into the modern roles of Baker and Porter sometime within the last millennium.”
But there’s a big gap between the hunting and gathering age and the baking and porting age. So what filled that gap? “We don’t know,” reveals Cavator. “We think that Miller and Carter were their likely identities during the agrarian period, but we’re not sure yet. We’ve got experts doing research on Baker’s lost cousins, Butcher and Candlestick Maker Hall. Overall, Baker and Porter are still fascinating enigmas to us.”