Posted on 06/24/2021 11:53:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
What, or where, in hell is ‘the Levant’?
Scientific pointy headed gibberish?
I've heard Tel Aviv is a very popular destination for the homosexual community.
it's where Oscar Levant's relatives live
Speech?
Protection of the tongue and when tucked in to chest, the larynx?
Just a thought.
Having something to do with the development of speech is definitely one of the hypothesis.
"Homo populations in Asia"
"make a sterile mule"
What about the 2nd and 3rd chins?!
I think we have chins so we can put pillowcases on.
Maybe also for playing the fiddle.
“new fossil evidence of this human uncovered by archaeologists - fragments of ancient skull and jaw bones, and teeth, which seem to fit both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens, but also... neither.”
Well, that’s darned definitive scientific.
That is obviously the Earth’s first Democrat. You can tell be noticing the empty brain cavity just below the skull bone.
The lumpers and splitters are still at it, I see.
Some things never change.
That`s what happens when a Neanderthal Guy meets a H. Sapiens Lebanese belly dancer.
It was not always the case but now “levant” is almost invariably used with decidedly anti-Semitic overtones.
From the wiki article on the subject:
The term Levant appears in English in 1497, and originally meant ‘the East’ or ‘Mediterranean lands east of Italy’.[23] It is borrowed from the French levant ‘rising’, referring to the rising of the sun in the east,[23] or the point where the sun rises.[24] The phrase is ultimately from the Latin word levare, meaning ‘lift, raise’. Similar etymologies are found in Greek Ἀνατολή (Anatolē, cf. Anatolia), in Germanic Morgenland (lit. ‘morning land’), in Italian (as in ‘Riviera di Levante’, the portion of the Liguria coast east of Genoa), in Hungarian Kelet, in Spanish and Catalan Levante and Llevant, (”the place of rising”), and in Hebrew (מִזְרָח, mizrah, ‘east’). Most notably, “Orient” and its Latin source oriens meaning “east”, is literally “rising”, deriving from Latin orior “rise”.[25]
The notion of the Levant has undergone a dynamic process of historical evolution in usage, meaning, and understanding. While the term “Levantine” originally referred to the European residents of the eastern Mediterranean region, it later came to refer to regional “native” and “minority” groups.[26]
The term became current in English in the 16th century, along with the first English merchant adventurers in the region; English ships appeared in the Mediterranean in the 1570s, and the English merchant company signed its agreement (”capitulations”) with the Ottoman Sultan in 1579.[27] The English Levant Company was founded in 1581 to trade with the Ottoman Empire, and in 1670 the French Compagnie du Levant was founded for the same purpose. At this time, the Far East was known as the “Upper Levant”.[2]
It should be homo alter kaker😉.
It’s man right?
And it’s really, really old, right?
I rest my case!
In a weird coincidence, I just learned last year that humans are the only primate that has a ‘chin.’ In fact, we’re the only animal on the planet with a chin. There’s not even a universally accepted theory on why our evolution produced chins.
Very simple - we were made in the image of our Creator. We didn’t “evolve” from Neanderthal’s, Denosovians, or anyone else. We were made this way, period.
What about the 2nd and 3rd chins?!
It’s China, they inherit nothing, or so it’s said.
Those are a common feature of Homo Sapiens Americanus.
Oops, I insulted them, bet they were smarter than Maxine. A potted plant is smarter than Maxine...
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