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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?
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
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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.
“... “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...”
LOL They’re leaving the house with the expense of the heating off, and traveling to the malls to “shop”. “Window shop” keeping warm at the expense of the mall.
It’s danged cold over there.
My God! We’ve discovered the reason for the disappearance of the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon. It was staring us in the face all the time.
Those species failed as husbands and were gradually phased out by being thrown out of the marital bed when they failed to answer the fatal shopping question properly:
Do you like the auroch skin or the cave bear fur better on me?