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"OK, Neanderthals had been there for 300,000 years, and they're not doing this," Shipman says. "If they are not doing it before, why would they suddenly start doing it at that point?"

For thousands of years, humans didn't do a lot of things, then suddenly we started doing them. Every innovation has its time and its reasons.

Remember when the young monkeys started washing their food in water to remove the grit? Why didn't the older ones figure that out? And why did they not join in on the discovery right away?

There are dozens of examples of animals not doing something for thousands of years and then one day...

38 posted on 06/15/2012 9:40:30 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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You picked the thoughts right outa my brain! Eggs Ackley!


75 posted on 06/15/2012 3:42:16 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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