[lbo-talk] I worship Thee, O Python

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Jan 4 19:16:29 PST 2007


Andy F wrote:
>
> On 1/4/07, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > She said the find meant that humans were more
> > organised and had the capacity for abstract thinking
> > at a much earlier point in history than assumed
> > previously.
>
> If they were homo sapiens, why would they be any different from us in
> this respect?
>

The first h sapiens baby (with non h sapiens parents) didn't stand up like M's Adam & begin to discorse on time & eternity. So when did humans invent language. Probably not for quite afew 1000s of years. This would seem to set the latest possible date for that invention back 30K years or so.

Carrol



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