Re: The "Transformation" of Mankind

dlham@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
For a hundred thousand years modern man did not do much of
anything then suddenly 50 thousand years ago for some reason he began
creating - what happened? Was this transformation a phase of a
natural evolution or was it a revolutionary creation?

50kbp African/Semetic lines met Neandertals; just as the meeting of any
two different cultures today results in innovation, so it did this time as well.

Of course, there were times when they tried to mate, and I dont doubt that some few times that was successful, and would have resulted in dramtically different organization of the neural pathways, which would have opened up a world of innovation.

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