Re: OT: Doubting Thomas: was "Introducing Myself"
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 18, 2005, 4:10 |
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Thanks, Marcos! Good to be back! :) :)
Sally
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Doubting Thomas: was "Introducing Myself"
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:33:25PM -0500, Sally Caves wrote:
>> hrough inbreeding, we might have in the Piraha
>> a small society of people who exhibit some kind of mental retardation
>> when
>> it comes to calculation and abstraction, but whose lifestyle did not
>> require
>> natural selection to redress this genetic disorder.
>
> That was exactly what I thought when I read the article.
>
> Oh, and welcome back, Sally! :)
>
> -Marcos