From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Wed Jan 22 1997 - 10:40:57 MST
keith@filoli.com (Keith Henson) writes:
>I hate to summerize Calvin's work rather
>than have you read it, but it seems that pre humans got along just fine as
>projectile hunters using hand axes thrown discus style into groups of
>animals at water holes/streams for millions of years. It was after humans
>started living up near the ice that Calvin thinks this method would no
>longer work--no waterholes when everything is covered with snow, and
>during part of every winter it was hunt successfully or die since that was
>all there was to eat (grass and animals).
>Calvin argues (very well I
>think) that this is what drove the expansion of the human brain.
However, this doesn't explain our intelligence, as we evolved (from Erectus)
in Sub-Saharan Africa, beyond the reach of the ice sheets. It might explain
Neanderthal intelligence, as I believe they evolved in Europe.
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