On 4/14/10, Carrol Cox cb...@ilstu.edu wrote:
I like a speculation by the aughor of The Monkey in the Mirror (I forget
his name just now) as to the origin of language. First, he assumes
(which seems right to me) that the cpacity for language was a spandrel,
not a trait in itself seleced for.
/2010, c b wrote:
On 4/14/10, Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org wrote:
Syntactic ambiguity or ineptitude on my part. I meant:
. . . nor is attempting to deny Marx's materialism necessary in
order to develop the concept of praxis.
^^^
CB: Yes.
Do you derive praxis from
Is the Fed Helping the Big Banks to Cook Their Books?
by Mike Whitney
counterpunch.org (April 12 2010)
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal revealed details of a cover up by the
nation's largest banks that have been engaged in potentially-criminal
accounting activities to conceal the amount of
The dialectic of qualitative change is a new qualitative
ingredient is injected into the existing process of production incrementally or
quantitatively. This injection of a new quality into an existing process
begins its initial qualitative reorganization.
^
CB: What is the new qualitative
Anthropology and Racial Politics
Serena Golden
April 16, 2010
Inside Higher Ed
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/04/16/baker
Anthropology may loosely be defined as the study of
human culture -- but throughout the discipline's
history, some cultures have been deemed more worthy of
study
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303491304575187920845670844.html#
BUSINESS APRIL 17, 2010 Goldman Sachs Charged With Fraud
SEC Alleges Firm Misled Investors on Securities Linked to Subprime
Mortgages; Major Escalation in Showdown With Wall
By GREGORY ZUCKERMAN, SUSANNE CRAIG and
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/a-historic-moment-for-health-care/#robert
Government as a Solution
Robert Reich, a professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at
the University of California at Berkeley, was secretary of labor in
the Clinton administration. He is the author,
Accountability, at Long Last
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/what-goldmans-conduct-reveals/#more-35941
Michael Greenberger is a professor at the University of Maryland
School of Law and a former director of trading and markets at the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
If
Yeah, accountability and moral hazard for all
So the key question from Main Street is: where is the accountability?
If the average American fails miserably in a business or professional
enterprise, there are consequences, e.g., firing or bankruptcy. Up to
today, it appeared that those
The Current Regulatory Battle
Douglas Elliott, a former investment banker, is a fellow in the
Initiative on Business and Public Policy at the Brookings Institution.
We will not know for some time how important this is, because it
depends on the strength of the government’s case and the extent to
On 4/20/10, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote:
And Mahathir turned out to be right. He also btw was the leader who
specifically warned about terror plots to fly a plane into
skyscrapers--because of a plot uncovered in SE Asia that was supposed
to target what was then the tallest structure in the
On 4/20/10, CeJ wrote:
It's another joke from the Obama regime. If they really meant
business, they would cite the RICO laws and get the DoJ to handout
indictments and subpoenas and start deposing.
This source below actually has the civil fraud complain't text in it.
On 4/16/10, CeJ wrote:
Well, same genus (smile). They can't interbreed, which defines a species.
Actually you could cross a toy dog with a wolf and get viable
offspring.
CB: Yes, you are correct. Evidently, doesn't have to be a toy dog. By
the way, the test of intra-species is
You've demonstrated a certain special symbiosis between human and
canine populations through history. It seems that just as humans have
gotten into feuds and wars between each other, so have some human and
canine populations fallen out at various levels.
Maybe, when humans are hunters, canine
On 4/26/10, CeJ wrote:
CB: Yeah, bailout the City. Cities don't go bankrupt. They go into
receivership.
http://www.uscourts.gov/bankruptcycourts/bankruptcybasics/chapter9.html#purpose
^
CB: Well, ok I'll pay you a fee. _Detroit_'s Mayor is refusing to
consider bankruptcy and only
La Opinion Calls for National Boycott of Arizona
La Opinion Editorial
April 24, 2010
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=985c78d066318e82c7477d75a0c87913
Espanol:
http://www.impre.com/laopinion/opinion/2010/4/24/diga-no-a-arizona-184974-1.html
An editorial in the Los
In New Jersey, a Civics Lesson in the Internet Age
By Ruth Fremson
New York Times
April 27, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/nyregion/28jersey.html?scp=2sq=New%20Jerseyst=cse
In Newark, students took their protest to City Hall, but
the real target of their message was Gov.
That last post was written by Chuck Grimes on lbo-talk
CB
Blankfein v. Levin
Chuck Grimes cgrimes at rawbw.com
Wed Apr 28 18:33:07 PDT 2010
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A reality check on Wall Street
by: Sam Webb
April 29 2010
tags: economy, financial reform, banks, capitalism
Much of the commentary on the financial meltdown and regulatory reform
has been first-rate. Many writers, including in the mainstream press,
have explained in popular language how Wall
On 4/30/10, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote:
CB:No. Reaganism is not mainly the person of Reagan but the motion of
masses in the period to the right. In Goldwater's time the movement of
masses was left, so much so that Nixon as President acted in many ways
to the left of , say Clinton when he was
On 4/30/10, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote:
# [Marxism-Thaxis] Blankfein v. Levin c b
I did catch clips of Levin on the news as well as at youtube. His
quotes from the GS e-mails remind me
of the dialogue in the 80s film, 'Wall Street', which is not a great
film in terms of there being any
Goldman Sachs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs
On December 4, 1928, it launched the Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. a
closed-end fund with characteristics similar to that of a Ponzi
scheme.
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Type Public (NYSE: GS)
Industry Financial Services
Founded 1869
Goldman's rival Morgan Stanley.[11]
CB: Is GoldmanS part of the House of Morgan ?
Laugher: Is Gimbels part of the House of Macy's ?
Br'er Rabbit: Uh , yeah now.
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Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Type Public (NYSE: GS)
Industry Financial Services
Founded 1869
Founder(s) Marcus Goldman
Headquarters New York City
United States
Area served Worldwide
Key people Lloyd C. Blankfein
(Chairman) (CEO)
Products Investment banking
Prime brokerage
Investment
History
[edit] 1869–1930
Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869 by German[1] immigrant Marcus
Goldman.[2] In 1882, Goldman's son-in-law Samuel Sachs joined the
firm.[3] In 1885, Goldman took his son Henry and his son-in-law Ludwig
Dreyfuss into the business and the firm adopted its present name,
Corporate affairs
Goldman Sachs Tower, at 30 Hudson Street, in Jersey City.As of 2009,
Goldman Sachs employed 31,700 people worldwide.[30] In 2006, the firm
reported earnings of US$9.34 billion and record earnings per share of
$19.69.[32] It was reported that the average total compensation per
Trading principal investments
Trading and Principal Investments is the largest of the three
segments, and is the company's profit center.[40] The segment is
divided into three divisions and includes Fixed Income, Currency and
Commodities (trading in interest rate and credit products,
GS Capital Partners
Main article: Goldman Sachs Capital Partners
GS Capital Partners is the private equity arm of Goldman Sachs. It has
invested over $17 billion in the 20 years from 1986 to 2006. One of
the most prominent funds is the GS Capital Partners V fund, which
comprises over $8.5 billion
Predictions
In December 2005, four years after its report on the emerging BRIC
economies (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), Goldman Sachs named its
Next Eleven[48] list of countries, using macroeconomic stability,
political maturity, openness of trade and investment policies and
quality of
Controversies
In 1986, David Brown was convicted of passing inside information to
Ivan Boesky on a takeover deal.[60] Robert Freeman, who was a senior
Partner, who was the Head of Risk Arbitrage, and who was a protégé of
Robert Rubin, was also convicted of insider trading, for his own
account and
Is the Ponziness and sort of musical chairs of the overall thing that
every firm cannot effectively hedge every bet ? So , when the music
stops and the bubble bursts, somebody is going to be without a chair,
somebody too big to fail when most or all too big to failers take
actual risks .
Those
Final AIG meetings on September 15 at the New York Federal Reserve
Some have cited, although incorrectly as others have noted,[92] that
Goldman Sachs received preferential treatment from the government by
being the only Wall Street firm to have participated in the crucial
September meetings at the
Friday, April 30, 2010
Business Day
World U.S. N.Y. / Region Business Technology Science Health Sports Opinion
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/goldman_sachs_group_inc/index.html
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
GS: NYSE; Financials/Investment Services
OTHER EXCHANGES: Mexico, NYSE
The Roots of Stalin in the Tea Party Movement
The Koch family, America's biggest financial backers of the Tea Party,
would not be the billionaires they are today were it not for the
godless empire of the USSR.
April 17, 2010 |
CBism (smile)
CB
Wall Street Taken Over - Workers Demand: Fix This Mess You
Made
1. 31,000 Deliver Message to Wall Street: Fix The Mess You
Made
2. I'm Marching Today to Make Wall Street Pay (Richard
Trumka)
3. Thousands Swarm To Massive Protest On Wall Street
(PHOTOS)
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Human Genome at Ten: Life Is Complicated
The more biologists look, the more complexity
there seems to be. Erika Check Hayden asks if
there's a way to make life simpler.
Erika Check Hayden
Nature
31 March 2010
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100331/full/464664a.htl
Not that long
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Cordelia --
Wall Street reform is gaining steam in the Senate, and a vote could
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Elena Kagan
This article is about a person involved in a current event.
Information may change rapidly as the event progresses. (May 2010)
Elena Kagan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Kagan
45th United States
That Stevens was considered a liberal on the SC is a sign of how far
the court had shifted to the right from the Warren Court days.
CB
Judicial philosophy
On the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, John Paul Stevens had a
moderately conservative record. Early in his tenure on the Supreme
Court,
From Basketball to Baseball, Professional Athletes Speak Out
in Opposition to AZ Immigration Law
Democracy Now!
May 6, 2010
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/6/from_basketball_to_baseball_professional_athletes
JUAN GONZALEZ: Opposition to Arizona's new anti- immigrant
law has extended into the
THE GOP SEEMS BENT ON BACKING CRAZY RIGHT-WINGERS IN THE MID-TERMS:
GOOD OR BAD NEWS FOR DEMS?
By Steve Singiser, Daily Kos
From coast-to-coast, so-called mainstream or establishment
Republicans are getting battered for their lack of
commitment to the principles of conservatism.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-markets-20100510,0,5725819,print.story
latimes.com
Stocks soar as Europeans agree to $1-trillion aid package
The Dow Jones industrials surge more than 400 points, or 3.9%,
trailing the SP 500 and the Nasdaq. Markets in Europe rise even more
sharply.
By
This is an interesting discussion.
In the section below, I think the definition differentiating culture
and culture vs cumulative cultural evoluton is problematic, as the
longstanding ethnological definition of culture makes accumulation
a necessary part of the definition. In other words,
David Laibman's preface to an upcoming issue of SS addresses a
recurrent theme on these lists. David wrote it a couple of months
ago, although the accompanying issue is yet to be published. So the
note is at once old, premature, and relevant.
* * *
SCIENCE SOCIETY
EDITORIAL PERSPECTIVES
Obama Limits When U.S. Would Use Nuclear ArmsView Photos
By News One April 6, 2010 1:09 pm
From the New York Times:
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WASHINGTON — President Obama said Monday that he was revamping
American nuclear strategy to
True language appears to be unique to humans. This has created severe
problems in understanding how it evolved, since there is little that
can be learned about its evolution from the communications of other
species.
CB: It was invented by some hominid way back when. It was a revolution.
On 5/19/10, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote:
CB: No it is dead generations interacting with living generations. It
is not the quantity but the quality of the interaction. This allows
way beyond three generations interacting. Ancestor worship. Kinship
family trees with legendary ancestors being
In preparation for African Liberation Day 2010, the All-African
People's Revolutionary Party presents:
CUBA: AN AFRICAN ODYSSEY
Sunday, May 23, 2010
3 p.m.
Nsoroma Institute
20045 Joann Street
Detroit, Michigan 48205
This brilliant documentary chronicles the commitment and sacrifice of
Yes there are on Hulu.com I think u might enjoy some of the
scientific mystery stuff.
Charles Brown 5/19/2010 12:17 PM
Thanks. I never saw Regenesis. Maybe there are reruns on the internet.
I was just thinking about how the AIDS virus is like an alien life
form parasite, but not alien
Capitalism vs. Socialism: Big Surprises in Recent Polls
By Charles Derber
CommonDreams
May 18, 2010
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/05/18-3
According to the conventional wisdom, the US is a
center-Right country. But a new poll by Pew casts doubt
on that idea. It shows widespread
Workingmen's Party of the United States
The Workingmen's Party of the United States (WPUS) was the first
Marxist-influenced political party in the United States, second in the
world after the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
The WPUS was formed in 1876, when a congress of socialists from
Working Men's Party
The Working Men's Party, nicknamed the Workies, founded in 1828, was
the first labor union in the United States, located in Philadelphia.
They promoted free public education as a way out of poverty. They also
demanded a 10-11 hour work period and universal male suffrage.The
Workingman's Party
The Workingman's Party was a California labor organization led by
Dennis Kearney in the 1870s. The party took particular aim against
Chinese immigrant labor and the Central Pacific Railroad which
employed them. Its famous slogan was The Chinese must go! They held
large Sunday
On 5/20/10, Jim Farmelant farmela...@juno.com wrote:
On Thu, 20 May 2010 13:02:37 -0400 c b cb31...@gmail.com writes:
Capitalism vs. Socialism: Big Surprises in Recent Polls
By Charles Derber
CommonDreams
May 18, 2010
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/05/18-3
According
On 5/20/10, Carrol Cox cb...@ilstu.edu wrote:
Just a few random observations as I can't keep up with all the posts on
this list or even a single thread.
It seems to me that emphasis on utility/communication leads to ar
radically distorted view of language, its use, and its history.
^^
On 5/21/10, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote:
Well I wouldn't discount completely contaminated samples or analysis
equipment (contamination often wrecks findings about this or that
genome). But if true I think we need something more than random
mutation to explain this.
CB: Well, that was
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Arizona?s law reminds us of past anti-immigrant legislation
By Winifred C. Chin, May 20, 2010
Arizona?s new anti-immigrant law is reminiscent of the Chinese
Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred people of Chinese ancestry from
coming to the United States. Those already here ? many
On 5/22/10, Carrol Cox cb...@ilstu.edu wrote:
As usual, I'm just breaking into the middle of a thread, and I do not
know who CeJ is quoting here, but I wholly agree with CeJ on this. The
idea of learning how to make a wheel from stories rather than directly
from another wheelwright is nothing
.
On 5/24/10, c b cb31...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/22/10, Carrol Cox cb...@ilstu.edu wrote:
As usual, I'm just breaking into the middle of a thread, and I do not
know who CeJ is quoting here, but I wholly agree with CeJ on this. The
idea of learning how to make a wheel from stories rather than
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/23/AR2010052302164.html
Nature Conservancy faces potential backlash from ties with BP
By Joe Stephens
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 23, 2010; 12:30 PM
In the days after the immensity of the spill in the Gulf of Mexico
became
Live From Arizona!
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7 PM
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You are invited to a meeting to organize in support of the movement to
repeal the racist Arizona Senate Bill 1070 that criminalizes immigrant
communities and communities of color in Arizona. The meeting will
focus on organizing
Origin of language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language
The origin of language, known in linguistics as glottogony[1] refers
to the acquisition of the human ability to use language at some point
during the Paleolithic.
The main difficulty of the question stems from the fact that it
CeJ jannuzi at gmail.com
Sorry still not convinced that 20th century anthropology explains very
much about the origins, development (both species and individual) of
language etc. I advocate a wholesale rejection of 'differential'
structuralism in order to tackle the issues.
You say for example
When I was in the Army I knew guys who could not read an Army manual
if their life depended on it, and yet
you could blindfold them and they could take apart, clean, and
re-assemble an M2 Browning machine gun.
They didn't get this sort of skill because stories of their dead
ancestors were passed
CJ: For example, this is what it takes for a contact pidgin to turn into a
full-blown language.
Now what evidence do you actually offer up that demonstrates primitive
societies
operate on a collective storage of thousands of years of information?
CB: The style of stone tools remains the same
CeJ jannuzi
In 1960 Levi-Strauss' uses structural linguistic concepts to demonstrate the
information in the
binary opposition/base 2 computer sense, in primitive myths
It got Althusser going, but this analysis I
CeJ jannuzi at gmail.com
So I remember ancedotally speaking this discussion from grad school,
applied linguistics, ELT, etc.
We were discussing the importance or unimportance of the sound [zh] as
in 'beige', 'rouge', 'garage', etc--if you say the sound as a
'continuous' one (not using technical
Chomsky has countered that he doesn't deny that language could have
evolved by natural selection for communication, merely that he doesn't
believe that this is at all self-evident, and he doesn't believe that
there is any convincing evidence that this must be so. In his paper on
this subject with
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language
Evolutionary timeline
[edit] Primate language
Not much is known about great ape communication in the wild. The
anatomical structure of their larynxes do not enable apes to make many
of the sounds that modern humans do. In captivity, apes have been
Back to Marx: How Can His Work Help Us to Understand
Modern Times?
Saturday 15 May 2010
by: Laurent Etre | Humanite in English
http://www.truthout.org/back-marx-how-can-his-work-help-us-understand-modern-times59774
photo Karl Marx street art. (Photo: Felix42 contra la
censura)
The world
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15985
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The entire article looks dubious and would require a lifetime to discuss.
CB: A lifetime ? What is dubious ?
I think the overall thrust of the accounts I posted excerpts from is
formed thus: that syntactisized upper body
^
CB: Why upper body ? Body language includes the lower
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On 5/27/10, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote:
I was wondering this because of the anti-BP backlash being given 'BP
is foreign connotations'.
It's not really foreign, it's not even really very British in terms of
who owns the equity stakes.
^^^
CB: I agree with your implication that the
On 5/26/10, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote:
Recursion in language
The use of recursion in linguistics, and the use of recursion in
general, dates back to the ancient Indian linguist Pāṇini in the 5th
century BC, who made use of recursion in his grammar rules of
Sanskrit.
Linguist Noam Chomsky
What about the transition in labor in the transition from ape to man ?
This essay uses labor in the sense that it is something that apes
do. So, it is not the labor ( or is it work ?) that produces
capitalist surplus value in _Capital_I, but the more general labor
that Marx describes in Chapter
On 5/26/10, CeJ jann...@gmail.com wrote:
Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Evolutionary timeline for language
The entire article looks dubious and would require a lifetime to discuss.
CB: A lifetime ? What is dubious ?
Most articles on linguistics at wiki are awful. Any attempt to revise
them will
this was written, British zoogeographer Philip
Lutley Sclater put forth the theory that a continent (he called
Lemuria) existed which reached from modern Madagascar to India and
Sumatra – and this continent has since submerged beneath the Indian
Ocean.
On 5/27/10, c b cb31...@gmail.com wrote
and Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German
Philosophy.
He continued to play an active role in the affairs of the European
workers' movement until his death on August 5, 1895 in London.
On 5/27/10, c b cb31...@gmail.com wrote:
What about the transition in labor in the transition from ape
. Labour has incorporated itself
with its subject: the former is materialised, the latter transformed.
That which in the labourer appeared as movement, now appears in the
product as a fixed quality without motion. The blacksmith forges and
the product is a forging.
On 5/27/10, c b cb31...@gmail.com
Obama security strategy highlights domestic terrorism
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E-mail this to a friend Printable version At Fort Hood 13 people were
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Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Charles, I don't understand the purpose of so many posts. Since reading
them all is out of the question, and I have no principle of selection
that would work, I end up not reading any
CeJ jannuzi at gmail.com
CB: In other words,
the fact that the signifier is _not_ the thing or processes that it
signified is the characteristic that allows it to get across the death
barrier that the body of the
Well, here's a change we can believe in (smile)
CB
A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush
JAMES A. HAUGHT
Free Inquiry - Secular Humanism, May 25, 2010
http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=librarypage=haught_29_5
Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French
President Jacques
A new stage in the crisis of capitalism part one
Written by Alan Woods Wednesday, 26 May 2010
After talk of the so called credit crunch gave way to optimistic
comments about the green shoots in the economy, events in Greece
caught the bourgeois commentators unaware. Now the world economy
has once
As Marx says, Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind, and
especially on his countrymen, when he showed that free competition, the struggle
for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical
achievement, is the normal state of the Animal Kingdom.
Was
Marx-Engels Correspondence 1875
Engels to Lavrov
12 November 1875
Source: Labour Monthly, July 1936, pp. 437-442, “Engels and Darwin –
Letter to Lavrov,” edited by Dona Torr;
Transcribed: by Ted Crawford.
The
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/1998/1998-August/005426.html
Except that Stephen Jay Gould in Darwin'
Delay ( in _Ever Since Darwin_) says:
In 1869, Marx wrote to Engels about
Darwin's _Origin'_:
'Although it is developed in the crude
English style, this is the book which contains
the basis in
Engels: Much more important is the direct, demonstrable influence of the
development of the hand on the rest of the organism. It has already
been noted that our simian ancestors were gregarious; it is obviously
impossible to seek the derivation of man, the most social of all
animals, from
Engels: But the decisive step had
been taken, the hand had become free and could henceforth attain ever
greater dexterity; the greater flexibility thus acquired was inherited
and increased from generation to generation.
^
CB: Ahhh but how ? How did the experience of repetition of use of _a_
Engels: First labour, after it and then with it speech – these were the two
most essential stimuli under the influence of which the brain of the
ape gradually changed into that of man, which, for all its similarity
is far larger and more perfect.
CB: The relationships between labour , speech and
Unions Battle European Leaders Over Austerity Measures
Wednesday
May 26
12:21 pm
By Akito Yoshikane
http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/6036/unions_face_rift_with_european_leaders_over_new_austerity_measures/
Less than a week after the European Union and Latin
America secured a free trade
Thailand: challenging the heroic revolution archetype
by Somtow Sucharitkul
ABC - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Drum Unleashed
May 20, 2010
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2905056.htm
I have been composing a long, day by day account of the
troubles of the last three days,
c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Thu May 27 15:00:48 MDT 2010
Engels: First labour, after it and then with it speech – these were the two
most essential stimuli under the influence of which the brain of the
ape gradually
Engels: But the decisive step had
been taken, the hand had become free and could henceforth attain ever
greater dexterity; the greater flexibility thus acquired was inherited
and increased from generation to generation.
^^^
CB: There is a qualitative leap in the development of dexterity in
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