Earliest humans not so different from us, research suggests

University of Chicago Press Journals ^ | February 14, 2011 | Unknown

[decimon]

As you were ping.

[DaxtonBrown]

Now if this archaeologist would just compare 250,000 years of Television use instead of stone tool use she’d be onto something.

[JimSEA]

Anthropologists have long speculated that language originated 60,000 to 80,000 years ago. That is totally counterintuitive to me. It makes no sense to me that the brain and other physiological changes necessary for language preceeded language by some 100,000 to 200,000 years. To me proto language must have come before physical changes. Otherwise we have to explain the evolution of complex physical changes for which there was no need. Selection of mutations that facilitated existing speech makes more sense.

I rather suspect that early Homo Sapiens were not too different than us. Minus the iPhone that is.

[muawiyah]

A quarter million years of laying on the couch drinking beer and eating potato chips is going to tell you what?

They've got gorillas who can do that with ease:

[decimon]

Now if this archaeologist would just compare 250,000 years of Television...

Modern stone age family.

[knarf]

How about;

God was playing in the dirt one day, and ...

[BitWielder1]

They has iPhones. Just looked like stone slabs that's all.
(I concede they may have had a black-and-white display.)

[Natural Law]

"They has iPhones."

They were just called iStones.

[bunkerhill7]

Earliest humans not so different from us, research suggests;

They were Egyptians

[Kenny Bunk]

Go to ANY Mediterranean port city in ANY country and you will see the Neanderthal type working the docks and fishing boats. Short, bow-legged, long arms, powerful heavy, muscles, covered with thick tawny hair, heavy brow ridges, like GEICO guys on steroids.

Neandertals (gotta remember to drop the "h") R us! They didn't disappear, they crossed with Cro-Magnons and the short guys are working the docks.

[smokingfrog]

[TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl]

Research has already shown that they wore their head pelts backward and sported earrings.

[AGreatPer]

At least the Pirates were winning back then. (If they had boats???)

Wonder if they had brains enough to make boats.

We sure have a lot of questions to ask God when we get there.

[SunkenCiv]

The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve
in local libraries

Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]

[Kenny Bunk]

Look, we owe a lot to those Cro-Magnons. It would have taken several more millenia to discover that a spear can be thrown as well as used as a stabbing weapon. And frankly, I don't know if Neandertals could have ever come up with the thrower-gizmo.

But that is no reason for those bastards to cop a tude on Neandertals. It is also very unfair that their women can run faster than Neandertal men, whereas, their guys can always jump OUR women. Either that or those broads are just pretending to be slow?

[SunkenCiv]

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[null and void]

God was playing in the dirt one day, and ...

[decimon]

"Evidence of clan-based societies in Megalithic period"

McGregaliths?

Don't know if that's posted but I didn't post it.

[TheOldLady]

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