[ExI] Fire and evolution (was hypnosis)

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Wed Nov 3 23:24:41 UTC 2010


On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:17 PM, spike wrote:
> Ja, clearly the pan's feet are better adapted for swinging from trees and
> homo's feet are better for walking distances on a grassy plane.  Good point
> Dan.  For that matter, as pointed out by someone earlier, pan's hands are
> not as good as homo's at grasping a burning bush.  Pan's thumbs are mounted
> too far aft.
>
>


By coincidence,
<http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-stone-age-humans-brain-power.html>

Stone Age humans were only able to develop relatively advanced tools
after their brains evolved a greater capacity for complex thought,
according to a new study that investigates why it took early humans
almost two million years to move from razor-sharp stones to a
hand-held stone axe.
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BillK




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