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
2 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.
3 posted on
06/08/2011 10:22:53 AM PDT by
SeeSharp
To: Red Badger
The origin of the beer run.
4 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.
5 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.
6 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.
7 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.
8 posted on
06/08/2011 10:27:55 AM PDT by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Red Badger
The smell of BS is heavy on this article.
10 posted on
06/08/2011 10:31:19 AM PDT by
The Cajun
(Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity......Nuff said.)
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: Red Badger
Apparently there was a local shortage of blonds.
17 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: Red Badger
20 posted on
06/08/2011 11:02:03 AM PDT by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: Red Badger
... And they died out, right?
21 posted on
06/08/2011 11:02:29 AM PDT by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: Red Badger
I don't know.... sounds like the just borrowed the social model of Lions.
Woman! Fetch me some bacon!
23 posted on
06/08/2011 11:08:23 AM PDT by
sjmjax
(Politicans are like bananas - they start out green, turn yellow, then rot.)
To: Red Badger
It is truly stunning what passes for scientific analysis these days. You don't need empirical evidence at all; you only need a plausible explanation ... and a few of your buddies to go along with it.
24 posted on
06/08/2011 11:12:12 AM PDT by
dartuser
("Dealing with preterists is like cleaning the litter box ... but at least none of the cats are big.")
To: Red Badger
the key word in there being “extinct”...
To: Red Badger
29 posted on
06/08/2011 1:09:43 PM PDT by
TASMANIANRED
(We kneel to no prince but the Prince of Peace)
To: Red Badger
alternate explanation. The females were tradeable commodities.
30 posted on
06/08/2011 3:55:05 PM PDT by
Oztrich Boy
(Monarchy is the one system of government where power is exercised for the good of all - Aristotle)
To: Red Badger
Probably visiting their mothers.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson