[NotQuiteCricket]

So, if we have been genetically modern for 200,000 years or more, why did our minds become more powerful only 45,000 years ago?

That was my question too. Cause, like if we are the same "form factor" as it were, what tripped the switch to make us self aware (the rational why beads are accepted as instance of "modern" thinking - self decoration).
Anyone had any apples lately?

[Pharmboy]

Anthropology only ranks behind sociology and psychology in its devotion to poloitical correctness and leftist ideology. Please take their pronouncements with the proverbial grain of salt.

[ASA Vet]

what tripped the switch to make us self aware