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Robert Tatman wrote:
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> So much for rugged individualism... "The Nature article said that despite
> their 'armored car' build, the Neanderthals became extinct because they failed
> to look after each other, whereas their weaker cousins, the descendants of
> modern man, were more social and were forced to depend on each other for
> survival."
> ==============================================================
> Pre-Neanderthal pelvis suggests brain prevailed over brawn
>
> May 21, 1999
> Web posted at: 3:09 p.m. EDT (1909 GMT)
>
> MADRID, Spain (AP) -- The ancestors of the Neanderthals were taller and
> heavier than previously thought, leading scientists to speculate that brawn
> over brains may have contributed to their extinction.
>
> Anthropologists from Madrid's Complutense University reached their conclusions
> after a five-year study of a 300,000-year-old fossil pelvis. The pelvis was
> put together from fragments found in 1994 in the key Atapuerca caves in
> northern Spain, according to the study published Thursday in the journal
> Nature.
>
> Complete pelvis fossils, which are quite rare, provide detailed information
> about the person as a whole, including dimensions, reproduction and
> locomotion.
>
> Team director Juan Luis Arsuaga told the daily El Mundo that the pelvis
> belonged to a pre-Neanderthal male between 1.73 to 1.80 meters (about 6 feet)
> tall who weighed at least 100 kilograms (about 220 pounds).
>
> Arsuaga, co-author of the study, said the width of the pelvis suggested that
> pre-Neanderthals suffered far less pain giving birth than their direct
> descendants, or modern humans.
>
> The pelvis belongs to an ancestor of the classic Neanderthals that date from
> between 100,000 and 35,000 years ago, when they died out, Antonio Rosas told
> the Associated Press. Rosas is an expert in prehistoric jaw bones who has also
> worked at Atapuerca.
>
> "It is undoubtedly the most complete pelvis ever found from the period and an
> important contribution to the field," Rosas said.
>
> The Nature article said that despite their "armored car" build, the
> Neanderthals became extinct because they failed to look after each other,
> whereas their weaker cousins, the descendants of modern man, were more social
> and were forced to depend on each other for survival.
>
> As adults, the Atapuerca hominids had smaller brains than modern humans
> relative to body mass, adding to the brawn-over-brain theory.
>
> The prehistoric remains were first discovered in the Atapuerca cave in 1976,
> with full scale excavation begun in 1984. It is one of the world's best
> prehistoric sites, and is the most important from the middle-plaestecine era
> that began about 780,000 years ago and lasted for 660,000 years, Rosas said.
Well duuuhhhh!!!!
This is the reason I don't cut Libertarians and Capitalists any slack.
They
try to push a philosophy that is both counterintuitive and unnatural.
That is,
the supremacy of the individual. Without commenting on what kind of
personality
tends to find this ideology attractive, I would point out that ALL the
elites
work in, and work for their group. That group is generally the Upper
Class and
upwardly mobile wannabes.
Unfortunately that group is at odds with the rest of humanity and we
are rapidly
approaching a situation of us and them within the constraints and
parameters of
limited resources in a finite ecological system.
Joshua2
social animals have evolved to survive AS A GROUP.
--
"And it came to pass that in the last days catatonics
roamed the earth, and great monsters ruled the masses."
---------------- Joshua II ----------------
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