Re: Michael Clark, would you like to make a retraction?

"Paul Crowley" <slkwuoiutiuytciuyik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Makouli" <men@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Here's a better link:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5199713

That article states:

" . . . Even today, elders can tell stories of journeys that make young
people, tied to their villages and dependent on aircraft, smile with
disbelief. The old people achieved this mobility by training reindeer
to carry them on their backs and pull them on sledges. The endless
succession of short migrations from one camp site to the next, which
they have shared with me, gives no more than a glimpse of the power
of reindeer transport and of the way in which this creature has opened
up vast swathes of the earth's surface for human habitation. . . "

Is it your belief that early hominids,
living on the African savanna, trained
local ungulates in a similar manner?

Nope...

If not, how did such hominids manage
to keep up with the migrations of those
animals?

They hailed a cab.

Paul.
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benefit of a 'better brain' would be for
the adult." --Paul Crowley 03/17/2004


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