[eno_]

Way cool.

I always found it unbeliveable that humans that are genetically like us could exist for hundres of thousands to millions of years and that no civilization would arise, no stone cities were built, no intellectual accomplishments comparable to our's were achieved, and that the expansion of the human population is monotonic.

I suspect that a combination of science-establishment orthodoxy and an unwillingness to let people contemplate the possiblity of massive population crashes and failures of civilizations keeps these topics out of the light.

[Zap Brannigan]

The story about the green children found near a cave in Spain in 1887 is a rip-off of an earlier myth called the "Green Children of Woolpit." See,

http://anomalyinfo.com/articles/sa00018.shtml

[mfulstone]

I suspect that a combination of science-establishment orthodoxy and an unwillingness to let people contemplate the possiblity of massive population crashes and failures of civilizations keeps these topics out of the light.

PRECISELY!

If Chicken Little does not mention anthropogenic habitat destruction, he will be pecked to death by his own kin!

[null and void]

I always found it unbeliveable that humans that are genetically like us could exist for hundres of thousands to millions of years and that no civilization would arise, no stone cities were built, no intellectual accomplishments comparable to our's were achieved, and that the expansion of the human population is monotonic.

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