2010/6/17 Bob W <p...@web-options.com>: >> My point was that if you look at modern man's known history and tally >> the societies that have not resorted to the latter two, you get a >> pretty short list. The likelihood that what we are today has evolved >> from something both expansionistic and exceedingly peaceful is >> pitifully small in my opinion. >> > > As I mentioned before, you can't take historical behaviour as a reliable > guide to prehistoric behaviour.
Sure it's unreliable. But to deny the possibility of it happening is even more so. > The idea that we deliberately killed them all is just not very parsimonious > as an explanation. I think we will just end up repeating ourselves here. Both of us have pointed at several mechanisms other than peace-and-love by which modern humans replaced the 'thals. Call me pessimist on our ancestors' behalf, if you like. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
