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To: moose07

“they challenge us to consider the very definition of what it is to be human”

Why?


25 posted on 03/04/2015 11:21:12 AM PST by Leep (Ronney/McCain 2016!)
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To: Leep
“Prof Stringer added: “These new studies leave us with an even more complex picture of early humans than we thought, and they challenge us to consider the very definition of what it is to be human. Are we defined by our small teeth and jaws, our large brain, our long legs, tool-making, or some combination of these traits?””

“Why? “
It needs the whole paragraph to see his train of thought.
To me it looks as if he is being Philosophical.
“What is it that separates Humans from the rest of the Animal Kingdom...”

26 posted on 03/04/2015 11:35:40 AM PST by moose07 (The Camels have reached the parking lot. Shields up!)
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To: Leep

““they challenge us to consider the very definition of what it is to be human”

Why?”

Oh! I know!

You see? It’s the slight curve of the jaw. It’s elegance. It suggests that the individual it belonged to was an artist! The wear on the teeth obviously suggests much gnashing of teeth in angst driven contemplations of the meaning of life as the artist painted on the walls of its cave such masterpieces as Piss Bison.


33 posted on 03/05/2015 3:23:40 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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