THEORY: Re : Re: Re : Re: THEORY: Question about the evolution of language

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 06/09/99 19:27:13  , Mailleneudefuque a =E9crit :

> ian tattersall attributes the success of homo sapiens over the neanderthal
>  population approx 40,000 years ago to the inauguration of symbolic though=
t.
>  "art symbols, music, notation, language, feelings of mistery, mastery of
>  diverse materials and sheer cleverness: all these attributes and more ,
>  were foreign to the neanderthals and are native to us"
>  in "becoming human" he writes
>  "for the 1st time, innovation was a routine part of human life
>  that could easily be shared with others.
>  against that kind of competition, no other human species could hold out"
> =20
> =20
i am not going to argue with such outrageously sapiencentric a viewpoint.
i was speaking for these thousands innocent victims of the past.

mathias

btw : if anyone knows a neanderthal please mail me. i'm interested in
sueing Sapiens for humongous damages and a big patch of land in Tahiti,
Italy and the French Riviera (still wondering why inuit chose Nunavut=20
instead).