go ahead
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What is a “kind”?
Do you love Lucy?
The contractors who were hired by the Druids - why didn’t they finish Stonehenge?
Why can’t you find one transitional form? We are just looking for one.
Why can’t you find one transitional form? We are just looking for one.
Oh,oh, let me try. We can’t find one because we have found a bunch.
But are they what they say they are? I mean look at Nebraska Man.
Sorry Mike. I am stupid so I go for the easy. Real honest question. What is anthropology?
But are they what they say they are? I mean look at Nebraska Man.
Almost all yes, but I am sure there are a few Cardiff giants, Piltdown men, and Nebraska men thrown in too.
Well you know that National Geographic and The Smithsonian are part of humanist plot to collect and destroy any evidence of giants so no one will believe in the bible. It’s true I have seen it on many websites.
who is hotter bones or her sister?
Is anthropology a clothing store catering to people who want to wear clothes made of bamboo or something like that?
Is Bigfoot a relative of man or bear?
Consider the genes responsible for cognitive functions in humans. Now consider these in YaHey’s case.
What’s speciation event is responsible for the orthology, since clearly they cannot be paralogous, and how far are they
across the phyla?
go ahead
Can I get extra whip cream on my latte?
Defend Dillehay and Monte Verdes.
Why did humans adapt an upright stance?
What is a “kind”?
tibbsy:
when it comes to ‘kinds,’ your homegirl is mary douglas. her writing can be thick, at times, but it’s mostly very readable. anyway, in a nutshell she says that humans have a real knack for dividing the world into binary categories - for instance, ‘bananas’ and ‘everything that’s not a banana.’ this is mostly fine and helps us get through life, but trouble arises when things move between boundaries. something that is both a banana *and *not a banana is mysterious, troubling, possibly ‘unclean,’ and maybe magical.
where it gets cool is when you move past bananas and onto categories like ‘living and dead,’ ‘male and female,’ ‘adult and child’ . . . that kind of stuff. go figure that in many (many) cultures, shaman and medicine men used to be cross-dressers. and why aborigine kids need to go walkabout before they become grownups (your second homeboy here is arnold van gennep, who said that in order to move from one category to another, humans universally use ‘rites of passage’). douglas basically concludes that when we talk about things being ‘dirty,’ it’s not about hygiene per se, it’s about “matter being out of place.”
basically we like to symbolically order our world, and we really, really don’t like when things are out of order.
-mike
Do you love Lucy?
always been more of a neandertal man, myself
-mike
(seriously)
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The contractors who were hired by the Druids - why didn’t they finish Stonehenge?
proto-unions
-mike
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