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Stone Age Revolution: Modern Humans May Have Divided Labor To Conquer
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| 11-4-2006
| Bruce Bower
Posted on 12/04/2006 12:38:58 PM PST by blam
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posted on
12/04/2006 12:39:01 PM PST
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blam
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
12/04/2006 12:39:51 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
Neanderthals were humans.
To: blam
Guess this will be passed off as textbook science soon because some researcher or professor guesses this is what happened.
I remember my professors in the late 70's teaching us, as indisputable fact, that (a) world hydrocarbon energy supplies would be all but gone by 2000 (that was always a convenient date), and (b) there would be mass world starvation due to insufficient foodstuffs by the same date.
Like global warming and evolution, this was nothing but a bandwagon of fools parading as science.
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posted on
12/04/2006 12:44:51 PM PST
by
Elpasser
To: Elpasser
No way this will end up in schoolbooks, but the only reason why is because it reinforces the notion that it's beneficial to recognize the differences between the sexes!
To: blam
All things are possible, but this is really educated guesswork. And one thing in academia is that people have to keep thinking up new ideas, because it's publish or perish.
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posted on
12/04/2006 12:46:33 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: blam
Modern Humans May Have Divided Labor To Conquer Management will be happy, but the AFL-CIO and Teamsters object.
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posted on
12/04/2006 12:46:45 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: blam
What a joke.
The article claims that sex roles did not exist until they were invented as part of a food-gathering technique.
Laughable.
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posted on
12/04/2006 12:48:22 PM PST
by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: blam
And we thought that the UAW was progressive. Yabba Dabba Doo!
To: blam
"Chalk up modern humanity's rise and the extinction of Neandertals to a geographic accident. "
To the atheist/darwinist that's all man is, or will ever be - an accident.
To: blam
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posted on
12/04/2006 12:52:46 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
(The WOT should have been over on 9/12/01.)
To: Cicero
Nothing educated about it at all.
We are apparently supposed to believe that people used to hunt in undifferentiated packs.
As if a typical hunting party might have included a 20 year old man, a 60 year old woman, two five year old boys and a pregnant woman.
And then, one special day, some guy came up with the concept of a hunting party composed only of younger but postpubescent men.
Preposterous.
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posted on
12/04/2006 12:53:11 PM PST
by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: blam
As a result, a division of labor arose beginning around 40,000 years ago Oh, that can't be right. The world is only 4000 year old.
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posted on
12/04/2006 12:57:37 PM PST
by
narby
To: blam
I believe GEICO owes someone an apologie!
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posted on
12/04/2006 12:57:40 PM PST
by
spikeytx86
(Pray for Democrats for they have been brainwashed by their fruity little club.)
To: blam
I believe GEICO owes someone an apology!
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posted on
12/04/2006 12:57:49 PM PST
by
spikeytx86
(Pray for Democrats for they have been brainwashed by their fruity little club.)
To: Elpasser
I remember my professors in the late 70's teaching us, as indisputable fact, that (a) world hydrocarbon energy supplies would be all but gone by 2000 (that was always a convenient date), and (b) there would be mass world starvation due to insufficient foodstuffs by the same date.Yeah, but they would always start their doomsday scenarios with, "Given the resources we have today..." or some other weasel-words.
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posted on
12/04/2006 12:58:57 PM PST
by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: PetroniusMaximus
To the atheist/darwinist that's all man is, or will ever be - an accident. No more, and no less an "accident" as the location of your birth. Call it Gods will, call it an accident, it makes no difference, you were still born there.
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posted on
12/04/2006 1:02:37 PM PST
by
narby
To: narby
"Call it Gods will, call it an accident, it makes no difference, you were still born there."
Whether the event was God's will or an "accident" makes all the difference in the world.
To: blam
Lions are sophisticated animals. Females have one role, males have another role. This has been observed for many years.
Primitive humans, however, sought their food in completely undifferentiated mobs, until someone did a cost-benefit analysis and decided that the Return On Investment of sex-based roles might have help the band's bottomline.
Seriously: My daughter's textbook already covers this. But I suppose it's in the textbook due to a Marxian "Division of Labor" theory and did not actually have supporting evidence. Now, perhaps, they think they may have some evidence. Does it matter? They were teaching it to children as a fact, even when it was just a theory.
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posted on
12/04/2006 1:09:33 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
To: ClearCase_guy
"Seriously: My daughter's textbook already covers this. But I suppose it's in the textbook due to a Marxian "Division of Labor" theory and did not actually have supporting evidence......"
Yet ANOTHER reason my kids won't go to gubmit schools......
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posted on
12/04/2006 1:13:52 PM PST
by
scottdeus12
(Jesus is real, whether you believe in Him or not.)
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