[extropy-chat] FWD [forteana] Neanderthal art?

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Kevin Freels <kevinfreels at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hooray! Once again we see they were smarter than we give them credit
> for!

Have you SEEN the rock doll they are talking about? It has about as
much artistic expression as a stick man. Whoopeedoo. Even if you
continue to think it is artistic (I think you are assuming a degree of
capacity for abstract expressionism mixed with dadaism that even most
of todays humans can't handle), it IS dated only 35,000 years ago, when
neanderthal was very old, was ending its tenure on earth and likely was
making a few desperate stabs at attaining higher reasoning, perhaps
with a little interbreeding help.

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Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
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