'Studies in neuroscience and anthropology, however, suggest that music did help human ancestors survive, particularly before language. In "The Singing...
... ================================================================== "MAY have"? SOME SOUNDS MAKE US COME, OTHERS MAKE US RUN In the Sharon Begley [Wall...
This is sheer speculation, yet a subject that (for reasons I'm hard put to explain) has long nagged at me. We know that Neanderthals left no obvious ...
Hi Bob, That was a direct quote from the article (which is why it was quoted). My apologies: that should have been more carefully done. I didn't compose that...
... was ... about? ... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0327_060327_skull.html ... Another story here. This one says there are 3 pieces (not 2...
Maria, About a year ago someone found a Neanderthal artistic artifact-can not recall the details-maybe Anne has a better memory? [bob] ... This is sheer...
It was a figurine with bits of wood stuck in the head for eyes. ... <bobandjoany@...> ... artistic ... I can't remember this (artifact of Bob's memory?). ...
Thank goodness you can piece together the fragments of obsolete grey cells!!Thanks,Dar. ... Ah yes!! That would be the La Roche-Cotard "mask". The article ...
... wrote: ... not ... as ... experience. ... are ... On the other hand, if rodeo riders & your friend & her son show that pain tolerance is under genetic...
... =============================================== There is more on this so-called face or mask (my view) at: http://www.greenwych.ca/hid-imag.htm (How we can...
... wrote: [Dale's post snipped for brevity] ... that ... Second try on this one. Previous attempt lost in the bowels of Yahoo, apparently. I think this is...
... ========================= Dear Dale and all: I never thought the quote was yours (the one about "no survival benefits to music")? Sorry if I gave that...
Dar: Your story sounds like it's a lot more informative re the "direction" the researchers are going in. Anne G Another story here. This one says there are 3...
Ross and Dale: Well, I'm sitting here scratching my gray head. Because I'm not quite sure why unusually high pain tolerance would be selected for in any...
Dave: Well, yeah. Neandertals and early "moderns" had to go out and hunt for their dinners, among other things. And while "moderns" apparently didn't suffer...
Ouch!You might have a point,ancient Saskabushian. Cheers, [bob] ... artistic ... a ... Anyone? ... =============================================== There is...
... Yes I was speaking from our modern definition of art for art's sake, or 'art' as separated from 'craft'. Actually this arbitrary compartmentalization is...
Unusually high pain tolerance is very likely selected against, since pain is a childhood training mechanism for the avoidance of common dangers. For example...
Well, the rodeo cowboys weren't totally insensitive to pain, just "bounced back" from an injury quicker. If they stick their hands into the fire they still...
... Pain tolerance is genetically variable. I think that is easily enough demonstrated and has been lots of times so that it can be taken as a given. It is...
... First color is not neutral, either to humans nor to any of the various perceptions of it that exist amoung visual creatures whether one considers just...
A lot of pain tolerance is taught. When a young child hurts himself, the astute parent quickly determines the difference between serious pain and minor...
... Nothing can make you look as old as I am, nor as old as I feel I am.... -- Otherwise, a very good point, Dale. By the way, Olive drab is my favourite...
Anne, Thank you for providing information about this site.None of the recent references books on the northlands of Europe mention the site.Is it a contenuous...
Joan's Bob: I'm not sure whether you mean "continuous" or "contentious" here. But you're right. There's very little, if anything, on places like Susiluola,...
... himself, the ... pain and ... making ... sight of ... attitude ... True enough. I will bet that your younger children got the advantage of your experience...
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