On Apr 30, 3:14 pm, Marc Verhaegen wrote:

I can't get this link to work?
regards
calder

On Apr 30, 12:13 pm, Marc Verhaegen wrote:

In 10 million years of evolution, that's the best they can do?
They should have been out chasing kudus.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/28/eaorang128
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http://tinyurl.com/5njdmu

On Apr 28, 2:34 pm, Marc Verhaegen wrote:

spear or harpoon?
Depends if he was smart enough to chew a barb on the end. It looks
like from the photo he is beating the water rather than using a
spearing motion.

http://zinken.typepad.com/palaeo/2003/10/worlds_oldest_s.html
The Schoningen spears are described as weight forward, same as the
modern javelin used in modern track and field events. These are about
400,000 years old found amid horse bones.

The spear from Lehringen
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3628638

Last, the earliest barbed fishing spears (harpoons):
http://discovermagazine.com/1995/aug/theslowcrawlforw555
"The researchers used four different dating techniques in all, and to
Brooks they all point to the same conclusion: there were modern humans
making sophisticated tools at Katanda sometime between 110,000 and
80,000 years ago. Apparently they were fishermen: the site is littered
with catfish bones."

On Apr 28, 2:34 pm, Marc Verhaegen wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/6pph8v

http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2008/04/functional_anatomy_part_i.php

use of the hallux and pollux to grip branches and tools while vertical/
bipedal hanging from tree branches, wading while holding vegetation,
etc.

The human brain is the finest product of unmediated evolution. There
will be advances in the future - but these will certainly be
mediated
by human agency.

Such a brain will eventually create an intelligent global society.
It's an evolutionary certainty - i.e, one that could easily be
overturned by catastrophe but which, barring that, will happen.

Why has this not happened to date? Consider the advances necessary to
create such a society - the knowledge required, the control required,
the communication necessary, the empowerment required, the errors
needing to be eroded, the imbalances needing to be corrected...If the
atom requires such prodigious underpinning with multiple particles
what underpinning must be required to construct such a vast society.

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The author has examined through microscopes more than 30 thin sections
cut from “rocks” that Mr. Ed Conrad discovered and sent to the author.
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subject “calvarium fossil”. The object is a Carboniferous a human
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