Re: OT: Origin of names (WAS: Re: Proto-Uralic?)
From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
Date: | Sunday, June 29, 2003, 16:05 |
Considering how long groups of humans have often considered others to be
excluded from "humanity" becuase of race, religion, politics, sexual
preference, this should be no surprise at all.
>Actually, it's been quite a while that we know that. The only problem is
>that the people telling about the impressive intelligence of dolphins were
>not taken seriously. After all, there just *couldn't* be another
>intelligent species on Earth but us (also, for long people have considered
>that intelligence had to do with the ability to create and use tools,
>something that by definition dolphins cannot do - difficult without hands
>-).
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