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Early humans may have cared for disabled young
New Scientist ^
| March 31, 2009
| Ewen Callaway
Posted on 04/06/2009 9:54:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Study: Prehistoric People Cared for Kin
by Will Dunham
Studying human remains found in southeastern France dating back 175,000 to 200,000 years ago, anthropologists determined that a toothless and apparently very old member of a group of archaic European people called pre-Neanderthals survived for quite a long time despite needing others to prepare food.
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04/06/2009 9:54:00 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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04/06/2009 9:54:27 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
But what possible evolutionary benefit would this bring??!!
Early humans would be ~5500BC.
To: chuck_the_tv_out
To: SunkenCiv
Or....sacrificed them....or in some cases, consumed them.
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04/06/2009 9:56:20 AM PDT
by
Logic n' Reason
(Welcome, one and all, to the islamo-muslim states of obamica!)
To: chuck_the_tv_out
But what possible evolutionary benefit would this bring??!! Possibly none, but it could be a side effect of social cooperation and love for one another.
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04/06/2009 10:00:32 AM PDT
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Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: chuck_the_tv_out
More like six million years.
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04/06/2009 10:01:15 AM PDT
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humblegunner
(Where my PIE at, fool?)
To: humblegunner
there is no evidence for that.
To: Moonman62
“love”? what is “love” under the evolutionary model? there is only self-replication!
To: Logic n' Reason
That’s what I was thinking... early humans may have eaten disabled young...
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04/06/2009 10:07:40 AM PDT
by
djf
(If Congress was a business, they'd all be in jail by now...)
To: chuck_the_tv_out
there is no evidence for that. There are these new things called "fossils".. amazing stuff.
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04/06/2009 10:09:07 AM PDT
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humblegunner
(Where my PIE at, fool?)
To: humblegunner
yep, and they’re not as old as you’re told!
To: chuck_the_tv_out
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04/06/2009 10:15:17 AM PDT
by
Boxen
(There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.)
To: SunkenCiv; chuck_the_tv_out
that might have made the individual dependent on others for survival. [snip]
But what possible evolutionary benefit would this bring??!!
This is evidence their life wasn't completely focused on their own survival; they had the ability to love another human.
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04/06/2009 10:15:49 AM PDT
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LucyT
To: chuck_the_tv_out
Ugh. Young Earthers, here on the FR?
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04/06/2009 10:22:32 AM PDT
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mquinn
(Obama's supporters: a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise)
To: SunkenCiv
There is evidence that Neanderthals took care of disabled people from study of the bones of Neanderthals found with broken legs, arms ect, where the break had healed long before the person died. There is also ample evidence that Homo Sapiens in many societies abandoned wounded adults and children born with defects. I am sure there were tribes that didn't abandon them but we know for a fact many not only abandoned their defective children, they sacrificed healthy children and adults to their Gods in order to have a good harvest and great hunts.
Can't escape the fact that primitive tribes were just that, primitive. They were brutal in many ways and did what they thought would insure their survival regardless of what it cost them emotionally.
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04/06/2009 10:25:23 AM PDT
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calex59
To: SunkenCiv
No sense in throwing away good meat that might come in handy.
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04/06/2009 10:43:36 AM PDT
by
wildbill
( The reason you're so jealous is that the voices talk only to me.)
To: mquinn
lol! haven't spent much time reading here have you?
I simply asked for evidence. If that makes you turn up your nose in disgust, so be it.
To: LucyT
Absolutely, I totally agree.
To: Boxen
Come now, you must get your metaphors straight. We mustn’t misuse metaphors or the mileage we can muster from them moderates.
When Obama says “Washington Special Interests”, THAT’S a Straw Man.
Evolution is more like a Sacred Cow...
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