Mikey: Oh. Sorry. My apologies, then. You will notice, however, that I covered my rear by sticking in the phrase "or somebody". Whoever that somebody was,...
... supports ... Increased population density provides the staffing for extended specialization which very likely grows out of the application of the ...
... Hierarchical organisation is one manifestation of increased population numbers living in an increasingly approximate vicinity. Heterachical is another. The...
Something for the list dog specialists. Maria http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/14409918.htm BROOKLYN - In ancient Illinois, small dogs were made...
This is the kind of remark that drives me crazy. Is there any evidence of "sacrifice"? There are dead dogs. The dogs could have been killed because the were...
Ritual is a lump-all category which is sometimes uncritically abused. However, the baby should not be thrown out with the bathwater. A good, solid and...
Dear all, I am going to be offering two online archaeology courses for anyone interested. The first course details the whole timespan of human evolution and...
... ============================================= Good guess -- close! In this case, according to the translator (Prof. Anne D. Kilmer) it was a love song --...
All: Something very strange happened today. I checked in as usual to palanthsci, and --- the screen said "No new activity in the last 7 days"! Now I know all...
... Actually, this happens a lot. Happened this morning to me here at Palanthsci. And not restricted to just this group. It seems to happen most often...
Dar: Yeah. I know. Yahoo "burps" a lot. It's just that I'd never seen a "no new activities" message before. On another group I inhabit, somebody apparently...
... I don't believe it. The original "My Wife" appeared in 2001, with variants thereafter. Also, the Yahoo servers, as far as I am aware, run Unix. It sounds...
Note last two paragraphs ;-) Maria ... Thoroughly modern spine supported human ancestor Bruce Bower Bones from a spinal column discovered at a nearly...
MIkey: I have absolutely no idea what caused the latest Yahoo "burp". I'm only going b y what this other e-mail list claimed, which may or may not have any...
Maria and all: I "noted" the last two paragraphs. Now I'm wondering why some people still cling to the notion that there was some sort of "brain" or other...
... Why you ask? Because there are dogmatic macho-stupid "scientists" who, once they pronounced a viewpoint, become irrationally wedded to it, as if carved...
... [snip] I've posted this over at Palanth forum with the relevant abstracts from the 2006 PAS meetings in San Juan. Note that in the McCarthy et al 2006...
All kinds of animals can make the appropriate sounds to populate a human language. Even birds like parrots, mynahs and crows can produce understandable...
... Far from it. The reason usually given for the inability of Pan not to be able to produce human speech (and H.neanderthalensis, if Lieberman et al. are to...
Over the last half century, I had been keeping up with every "breakthrough" in human origins research. I have read about every "mutation" that eventually led...
Jack: On a somewhat "serious" note, I think you're basically right. What probably distinguishes the genus Homo from australopithecines is doubtless the...
Bob F: Lieberman is certain "wedded" to his theory. He has been for the last 30 years. However, in recent years, he has "modified" it slightly to claim that...
... "Neanderthal man lacked the vocal tract that is necessary to produce the human 'vocal tract size-calibrating' vowels [a], [i], and [u]. This suggests that...
... =========================================== Well, I'm glad to see he was flexible enough to make even tiny "modifications" of his viewpoint when required....
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