[TalBlack]

"How do you explain the sudden emergence of a complex society when 99.99% of the rest of humanity were living primitively?"

Isn't Egyptian hieroglyphics anomalous as well. I have read that they appear suddenly with out any intermediate forms.

[jb6]

I lay it all down to beer and wine. Think about it, wine would have formed natuarlly, so the first group comes alone finds it gets drunk, figures out that it grows in this area and you need to help it grow and from there on civilization explodes....all so that we can now get tanked at any time.