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Ancient Hominid Males Stayed Home While Females Roamed, Study Finds
Science Daily ^
| 06-001-2011
| Staff + University of Colorado at Boulder.
Posted on 06/08/2011 10:19:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
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This is a skull of a Paranthropus robustus from Swartkrans Cave in South Africa. (Credit: Darryl de Ruiter)
I suppose they are the ones that decorated the caves..............
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/08/2011 10:20:47 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Nothing is a 'right' if someone has to give it to you................)
To: Red Badger
That evidence suggests raiding and kidnapping to me, not sexy cave girls stepping out.
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posted on
06/08/2011 10:22:53 AM PDT
by
SeeSharp
To: Red Badger
The origin of the beer run.
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posted on
06/08/2011 10:23:54 AM PDT
by
Stosh
To: Red Badger
No wonder they went extinct. That face reminds me of Larry Sinclair's ex’s wife.
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posted on
06/08/2011 10:26:48 AM PDT
by
kbennkc
(For those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
To: Red Badger
Not much volume for a brain in there,Must be a early Democrat judging from the culture.
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posted on
06/08/2011 10:26:58 AM PDT
by
Cheetahcat
( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
To: Red Badger
The tradition continues on Sundays during football season.
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posted on
06/08/2011 10:27:45 AM PDT
by
forgotten man
(forgotten man)
To: Red Badger
And they know this from looking at teeth? Here’s my hypothesis - Fast Lions Deposit Teeth of Slow Women in Their Feces and Scientists Look at Shinola and Claim It’s Sh_t.
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06/08/2011 10:27:55 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: forgotten man
Yes, the descendants of the Neanderthals gather round the campfire/TV to watch other Neanderthals...................
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posted on
06/08/2011 10:29:37 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Nothing is a 'right' if someone has to give it to you................)
To: Red Badger
The smell of BS is heavy on this article.
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06/08/2011 10:31:19 AM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity......Nuff said.)
To: SeeSharp
That’s what I thought, but the kollege edukated perfessers don’t think that way................
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posted on
06/08/2011 10:31:25 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Nothing is a 'right' if someone has to give it to you................)
To: Red Badger
The conclusions are almost laughable......What’s not laughable is the Grant Money we passed out.
To: Red Badger
Just proves the men were more likely to respect The Forbidden Zone.
To: kbennkc
LOL! That was my first thought as well.
To: SeeSharp
Not just raiding and kidnapping - but also trading.
All primates species that form small bands (we are no exception) have all the juveniles of one sex or the other leave the home group and join a new group. Some suggest that teenage angst and alienation is a biological remnant of this behavior.
Among baboons it is the males.
Among chimps it is the females.
The point is that even a baboon ‘knows’ that you cannot keep reproducing within the same small group. One sex or the other has to be ‘swapped’ with another group.
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06/08/2011 10:42:07 AM PDT
by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
To: SeeSharp
“That evidence suggests raiding and kidnapping to me, not sexy cave girls stepping out.”
BINGO.
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posted on
06/08/2011 10:42:41 AM PDT
by
Crim
(Palin / West '12)
To: Red Badger
Apparently there was a local shortage of blonds.
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posted on
06/08/2011 10:47:27 AM PDT
by
ArmstedFragg
(hoaxy dopey changey)
To: Red Badger
Taboos against incest seem to be universal--it seems that all human societies know that too-close interbreeding is harmful. What this study suggests is that the pattern of the sons staying in the family abode while the daughters married out to another household was already found among these ancient hominids.
At a much more recent period, the Proto-Indo-European speakers seem to have had patriarchal families where the sons stayed put and the daughters married away--that is deduced from various words for family relationships in the later Indo-European languages.
Of course the marriage customs among the Paranthropi robusti would have differed in detail from later hominid species--they didn't throw rice since they didn't have rice.
To: forgotten man
Ya, but.... we never should have given them the right to vote.
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posted on
06/08/2011 11:00:17 AM PDT
by
donhunt
(I am sick and tired of those bastards insulting and lying to me.)
To: Red Badger
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06/08/2011 11:02:03 AM PDT
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Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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