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Did climate change create modern man? Ancient temperature shifts made us more intelligent
Daily Mail UK ^ | October 1, 2014 | By SARAH GRIFFITHS

Posted on 10/01/2014 3:59:28 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Our most ancient ancestors were battling climate change to survive droughts, freezing and flooding.

And now a growing number of scientists believe that shifts in the Earth’s climate are responsible for creating some of our most distinctive characteristics.

Their research suggests that large evolutionary leaps, such as the development of our bigger brains and ability to create and use complex tools, coincided with periods of volatile climate change.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: climategate; failure; hoax; socialism
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1 posted on 10/01/2014 3:59:28 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Their research suggests that large evolutionary leaps

Guesswork and speculation, being called "research".
2 posted on 10/01/2014 4:02:52 PM PDT by adorno
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Global warming sure seems to have lowered the IQ of a significant portion of our population.


3 posted on 10/01/2014 4:03:08 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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Dang - you beat me to it!


4 posted on 10/01/2014 4:05:52 PM PDT by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Intellectualim today is, just think up anything. The more absurd, the more intellectual it is.


5 posted on 10/01/2014 4:06:59 PM PDT by inpajamas (Texas Akbar!!!!!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Modern climate shifts have promoted idiocy in the human race.


6 posted on 10/01/2014 4:08:06 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: Chaguito; mountainlion

Whoops, you beat me to it, too.


7 posted on 10/01/2014 4:09:39 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate: adapt or die.


8 posted on 10/01/2014 4:12:16 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Any intellectual knows that every earthly phenomenon is caused by George Bush, Republicans, Conservatives and gun owners.....


9 posted on 10/01/2014 4:18:18 PM PDT by EagleUSA (eraer)
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Ancient temperature shifts made us more intelligent

Now it appears that they are making us more stupid.

10 posted on 10/01/2014 4:19:15 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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If the oceans rise and you live on the beach, you must climb it. That’s how you deal with climb it change.


11 posted on 10/01/2014 4:20:23 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (HELL, NO! BE UNGOVERNABLE! --- ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Ancient temperature shifts made some of us more intelligent
12 posted on 10/01/2014 4:21:40 PM PDT by Iron Munro (We can make it work with only one square per restroom visit -- Sheryl Crow)
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Oh wow, and here I thought that an alien monolith was responsible for intelligent man...


13 posted on 10/01/2014 4:22:29 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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There isn’t enough grant money to go around for Earth Sciences majors at universities nowadays. Publish or perish is being taken to extremes.


14 posted on 10/01/2014 4:22:44 PM PDT by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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Too bad modern morons aren’t bright enough to figure out that we are one of the most adaptable species ever to live on the face of the planet.


15 posted on 10/01/2014 4:36:40 PM PDT by cripplecreek
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Maybe if we have some climate change Democrats will evolve into Republicans and Muslims will evolve into humans


16 posted on 10/01/2014 4:36:41 PM PDT by ZULU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qLDFiQcjlY Impeach Obama in 2015 !!!)
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Now I know WHY liberals hate Global warming! If you are smart, you won’t be a liberal.


17 posted on 10/01/2014 4:43:33 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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God controls the weather, and all on planet earth is dependent on the weather. Not just man, but every single creature on the planet today, was "created" by "climate change."

The polar ice caps have melted and refrozen countless times over the millennia. The last million years -- an eternity in human terms -- is the blink of an eye on this old earth, where you can find massive banks of fossilized oyster shells 28 or so miles inland and at about 1700 ft elevation that are, as far as geology tells us, only from about 20 million years ago, some 45 million years after the last of the dinosaurs, after two previous near extinctions and a long reign of what, 150 million years? There has been CONSIDERABLE shift in climate and geology constantly on our globe.

God put us here and we are only along for the ride -- the weather calls the shots as to how we adapt to survive on this material plane. God tells us how to do it, no matter what the weather does.

18 posted on 10/01/2014 4:46:06 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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>"Their research suggests that large evolutionary leaps, such as the development of our bigger brains and ability to create and use complex tools, coincided with periods of volatile climate change. "

Their research obviously excludes any EMPIRICAL DATA from PERU!

We are not "evolving" we are Devolving! Used to be you had to go on missionary trips in the rainforest or africa to see primitives with bones in their noses! Today all you have to to is go for coffee!

Do the fools really think if they can get enough people believing the lie of evolution that it will come true?

19 posted on 10/01/2014 4:51:54 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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you beat me to it!


20 posted on 10/01/2014 4:54:53 PM PDT by hecht (america 9/11, Israel 24/7)
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