[MD] CBC Ideas: Homo (Sapiens) Neanderthalensis & etc.

[skutvik at online.no]

Dear All 

Marsha said 25 Dec. 

> This is a two-part series that runs November through December.  This
> is a very interesting program, and I liked very much the way it was
> presented.  As a podcast it can be downloaded at the website, or it
> can be gotten from iTune subscribe.
 
> http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/neanderthals/index.html

Interesting, but what's the bearing on the MOQ? We know about the 
Neanderthals. There surely were other humanoid races around the 
globe before the Cro Magnons (with their "modern" neocortex brain) 
closed the "window of opportunity" for the other. At least no full-fledged 
Homo Sapiens suddenly emerged, there were hundred of thousands 
of years - millions possibly - before the said humanoid type had 
evolved (the biological level's internal evolution) and from then on 
scores of millennia before the social level emerged from the said Cro 
Magnon's biology (their intelligence IMO)

By the way, I recently bought a history magazine that brought an article 
on the Greek thinkers and started with saying "The philosophers and 
scientists of antiquity were the first who tried to explain the world 
through reason and logical conclusions. From Thales to Archimedes 
they rejected their contemporary religious dogmas and shook their 
heads at anything not rational .(snip) .. laid down the fundaments for 
all scientific research and the modern Western culture and our time's 
democracy" (translated from Norwegian) I've never seen what 
happened in Greece presented so close to Pirsig's in ZAMM before.  
   
Bo