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What Happened to the Hominids Who Were Smarter Than Us? [Apes with 150 IQ?]
Discover ^ | 28 December | Gary Lynch and Richard Granger

Posted on 12/31/2009 9:53:37 AM PST by Fractal Trader

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1 posted on 12/31/2009 9:53:37 AM PST by Fractal Trader
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To: SunkenCiv

GGG ping.


2 posted on 12/31/2009 9:54:04 AM PST by Fractal Trader
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To: Fractal Trader

THEIR MALES ALL MARRIED EACH OTHER AND HAD NO CHILDREN. AIN’T SURVIVAL OF THE SPECIES A BITCH?


3 posted on 12/31/2009 9:55:00 AM PST by panzerkamphwageneinz
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To: Fractal Trader

They are on that island with Elvis and JFK.


4 posted on 12/31/2009 9:55:56 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Fractal Trader

Interesting story. I would suspect that they had a deficient gene called liberalitis that did them in.


5 posted on 12/31/2009 9:57:03 AM PST by Parley Baer
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What Happened to the Hominids Who Were Smarter Than Us?

We took to alcohol and blogging to dumb ourselves down to happy. There is a House episode about it.

6 posted on 12/31/2009 9:57:19 AM PST by HospiceNurse
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To: Fractal Trader

I won’t say it, but I’m thinking it! Bump.


7 posted on 12/31/2009 9:58:21 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Fractal Trader

Rising expectations...


8 posted on 12/31/2009 10:01:24 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Fractal Trader

An enormous brain no more makes one a great thinker than an enormous d**k makes one a great lover. It’s what you do with what you’ve got that counts.

On the other hand, all other things being equal, bigger is better. Or, at least, that’s what my ex-wife says.


9 posted on 12/31/2009 10:02:16 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Fractal Trader

Their mothers died in childbirth.

In any event, brain size does not necessarily correspond to a 150 IQ. Albert Einstein did not have a big head.


10 posted on 12/31/2009 10:03:13 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: Fractal Trader

Better to be lucky than good.


11 posted on 12/31/2009 10:03:46 AM PST by NaughtiusMaximus (Screw the polar bears. What have polar bears ever done for me?)
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To: Fractal Trader

Large brains, childlike? I think that these people are still amongst us. They are called Liberals.


12 posted on 12/31/2009 10:03:57 AM PST by centurion316
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They had wives that looked like Barbara Bach and Rochelle Welch, who paraded around all day in skimpy fur bikinis. And they were aloud to go hunting seven days a week. Maybe the case has been made they were smarter
13 posted on 12/31/2009 10:07:19 AM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: Fractal Trader

Harvardus Facultius


14 posted on 12/31/2009 10:09:05 AM PST by almcbean
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To: ModelBreaker

Turns out Albert Einstein did have a larger skull: http://www.crystalinks.com/einstein.html


15 posted on 12/31/2009 10:11:36 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Fractal Trader

Maybe they were socialists.


16 posted on 12/31/2009 10:15:46 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is fading.)
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To: ModelBreaker

By this reasoning, elephants should be earth’s smartest land creatures.


17 posted on 12/31/2009 10:16:01 AM PST by Defiant (The absence of bias appears to be bias to those who are biased.)
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To: Fractal Trader

I have big feet.


18 posted on 12/31/2009 10:19:55 AM PST by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP!)
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To: Defiant

It’s the ratio that’s important, not absolute size. Elephants have enormous brains because every square inch of skin, muscle etc etc has X number of nerve cells that the brain needs to communicate with. If there was a hominid close to our size, but with a substantially larger brain, it would be indicative of intelligence.


19 posted on 12/31/2009 10:24:46 AM PST by Melas
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20 posted on 12/31/2009 10:24:52 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is fading.)
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