[decimon]

Like you’d care ping.

[Pearls Before Swine]

It’s nice to know that Neanderthals may have had empathy. It is notably lacking in a large sub-population of current humans.

[Little Bill]

Have you ever noticed that people behave just like people across the centuries. I wonder why that is, should I apply for a grant?

[vpintheak]

I wonder if sometime in the future people found the remains of WWE wrestlers. Why they could build a whole entire civilization off those remains.

[Dem Guard]

What a bunch of Hocus Pocus smoke. Where can I get a grant to put out this highly speculative and unprovable cr*p?

[central_va]

[Boogieman]

“The archaeologists studied archaeological evidence and used this to propose a four stage model for the development of human compassion. It begins six million years ago when the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees experienced the first awakenings of an empathy for others and motivation to ‘help’ them, perhaps with a gesture of comfort or moving a branch to allow them to pass.”

What a load of hooey! If compassion evolved in some common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees, then what, it just happened to evolve in the ancestors of other unrelated animals that also display compassion? Oh, must be that “convergent evolution” again.

[AnnGora]

Just ask Bill Clinton.

[wtc911]

We still do!

[Adder]

Did they find fossilized emotions next to the flint cherts?

Sheesh.

It can only be rank speculation.

[a fool in paradise]

Touching news item.

[OB1kNOb]

Printing for my wife to read so I can say I told you so.

[JimRed]

It begins six million years ago when the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees experienced the first awakenings of an empathy for others and motivation to ‘help’ them, perhaps with a gesture of comfort or moving a branch to allow them to pass...and then letting it spring back to knock the other down, accompanied by gales of laughter from the rest of the troop.

[onedoug]

They also buried their dead and placed flowers in the graves suggesting an emerging spiritual sense.

[SunkenCiv]

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[wendy1946]

The ONLY reason gorillas and chimps cannot be taught to speak English is the lack of voluntary control over breathing. At least one of them which has learned deaf signs checks out as having an IQ in the 100 - 110 range; that's more than adequate for half of American jobs.

There are other examples of creatures which are totally unrelated to us being intelligent. This includes dogs, cats, octopi, parrots, crows, magpies, ravens, and any number of others.

The relationship between crows and ravens of course is similar to that between Masons and Shriners i.e. you have to be a crow for six or seven years before they'll let you be a raven...