Re: Beyond the Savanna Mentality

mclark wrote:
>
> "Su Solomon" <susol@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:433D1009.540A@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Jim McGinn wrote:
> >>
> >> quercophile wrote:
> >> > Rich Travsky posted:
> >> >
> >> > > http://www.discover.com/issues/oct-05/features/human-origins/
> >> > > Beyond the Savanna Mentality
> >> >
> >> > I was disappointed in this response of Tim White.
> >>
> >> White is a rock hound. Like most other anthropologists he isn't
> >> qualified to discuss theoretical issues.
> >>
> >> Jim
> > Just love it.
> >
> > 7.9 on the irony scale
>
> You have a working irony-o-meter? That must
> be because you don't stop by here that often.
> I turned mine off because I couldn't afford to keep
> fixing that damned thing.
>
> Here, let's give yours a test run.....
> --
> "You might be right but, people shouldn't buy it unless you can
> *demonstrate* it through logical reasoning and/or evidence and I just
> don't think you have done that." ---Algis Kuliukas 08/14/05


Drats, now its bust : )

Perhaps I should invest in a 'parsimony meter' instead ; )
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