Dah dum dum da dum CHARGE IT!!!
Posted on 02/25/2009 7:21:14 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A woman's love of shopping is a throwback to her days in the caves, according to a new study. Shoppers are using instincts they learnt from their Neanderthal ancestors, researchers have found. Dr David Holmes, of Manchester Metropolitan University, said skills that were learnt as cavemen and women were now being used in shops. He said: "Gatherers sifted the useful from things that offered them no sustenance, warmth or comfort with a skill that would eventually lead to comfortable shopping malls and credit cards. "In our evolutionary past, we gathered in caves with fires at the entrance. "We repeat this in warm shopping centres where we can flit from store to store without braving the icy winds." The study was commissioned by Manchester Arndale shopping centre in response to a rise in January visitors, according to the Daily Express. Visitors to the centre in January this year increased by 350,000 on last year to 2.68 million, a spokesman said. Arndale's business manager, Karl Clawley, said: "It seems our gatherer instincts are coming to the fore and affecting the way we shop in these testing times." Latest figures from the British Retail Consortium show that consumer spending in January was up by 3.2 per cent on last year.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The Neandertal EnigmaFrayer'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]
by James Shreeve
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Been saying that for years!
If you think we have evolved beyond our hunter-gatherer past, visit any Walmart.
God!! Where is Captain Obvious when you need him?
Similar problems demand similar solutions. Don’t want ot haul home useless trash? You pick the good stuff out.
Why do these people get money for this crap?
The study has an element of truth to it. Throughout the years whenever I hand my credit card to my girlfriends, they turn into ‘savage’ shoppers.
Good to know. We may be going back to the caves before Obama’s term ends.
They learned
their instincts? Is this concept out of a textbook by that famous biology authority, Trofim Lysenko?
I don’t think of shopping as fun. I just do it when I need to do it. Must be the tomboy in me.
The liberal shopaholic womyn would probably call me weird, but maybe they’re the weird ones. After all, I’m sure our plant-gathering ancestors didn’t think of what they did as fun. They just did what had to be done. Perhaps seeing shopping as some sort of fun activity is the evolutionary anomaly.
Ahh yes, those ladies love Stoneman Marcus and Rocks 5th ave
What kind of womyn do you date?
Dah dum dum da dum CHARGE IT!!!
We may be going back to the caves before Obama’s term ends.
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I’m wishing I had a cave already!
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Oh, c'mon. Everybody knows there's no such thing as British Dentistry. That was outlawed by Labour eons ago.
Neanderthal ancestors??
If you notice the way women do recreational shopping, it doesn’t necessarily involve spending money. It really involves going slowly through the store(s), judging, comparing, noting prices, imagining, and mentally filing away price and location in case she needs items later. It’s a bit like the early human woman selecting the best berries for her tribe, and noting where the best ones grow so she can find them when the tribe comes through the area next season. We’re constantly touching, sampling, judging when we shop. Of course, bringing home a “find” is satisfying too, but not completely necessary. And we take as much pleasure in finding something for a loved one or for the home cave as for ourselves.
Not every woman is like this, but the behavior is so widespread across the world and through so many cultures that there has to be some innate component to it.
—OTTB Mare, the Amateur Paleoanthropologist ;-)
....a throwback to the days of Cro-Magnon Man and I. Magnin Woman.
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