Posted on 04/15/2008 6:35:51 PM PDT by blam
GGG Ping.
For a second I thought it was about Obama rally.
We almost never say that.
Famous last neanderthal words:
“Change.”
Who needs megabucks research... just listen to Frank Lautenberg speak!!!
Thay are a bit whiny though:
There’s a Far Side cartoon here somewhere.
All of the speaking from the “Geico cavemen” doesn’t count?
That's absolute B.S., in my opinion. Given sufficient intelligence they could have produced a language out of any combination of sounds.
Here’s a question I have never seen asked, much less answered: when did white people come into existence?
I don’t mean to be facetious. I just surmise that people originally started off dark, if humanity began in Africa. Animals that need sun protection either have hair or dark skin, and so do people. But as people move into areas in which there is less sunlight, not only do they need less protection but the melanin that protects them from overexposure to the sun may also prevent them from acquiring enough Vitamin D. It has even been suggested that the high incidence of asthma in black people living in the US may come from chronic prenatal Vitamin D deprivation. (Nice hypothesis but remains to be demonstrated conclusively.) So I’m wondering if unpigmented mutations were able to survive after our ancestors moved into northern Europe and northern Asia. Possible? Feel free to shoot this down, I’d like to hear alternative ideas.
Reconstruction of a Neanderthal child's face (Image: Anthropological Institute, University of Zürich)
A fair-skinned, light-haired Neaderthal? I thought that look came much later, but I'm not a student of evolution.
“I thought their diction was good.”
“You could understand everything they said...”
I guess it beats having a real job. I’d hate to think, as I breathed my last breath, that I had wasted my time making up a sound that a Neanderthal might have made 30,000 years ago.
And to think that universities actually pay these people handsomely for such useless drivel that will never help anyone to anything better in this world.
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