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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (3046)	12/21/2016 9:49:25 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362296

Who are you to say that Ns with a larger brain capacity than we have did not speculate on taxonomy... So, one wonders about the probability that a hierarchy chart ever adorned the wall of a cave. Or maybe the inherent subsidiarity was documented via pyramid-shaped piles of labeled rocks. Hmmm. Our concept of taxonomy began with Aristotle. Not that homo sapiens couldn't have done it sooner had anyone had the incentive, but that was a pretty advanced civilization, tiny brain size notwithstanding. The Neandertals would have had to have both the mental capacity and the motivation to use it for that purpose. And, of course, they would have to have had a way to keep the dinosaurs from kicking over the rock piles or urinating on the cave drawings...

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (3046)	12/22/2016 9:46:04 AM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362296

<<<<<Who are you to say that Ns with a larger brain capacity than we have did not speculate on taxonomy>>>>> We humans are better than the Neanderthals don't you know. So funny; our hubris gives us all the incentive to think of ourselves as better than Neanderthals. Maybe they were smart and passive? Like big Teddy Bears? Who can say now? One misperception many have is that we evolved from Neanderthals or Denison man when it is more likely all of the groups evolved from a common ancestor and that the separate species - or more likely in my mind subspecies - evolved as parallel branches that kept touching so that DNA traveled back and forth between the groups. In the case of Neanderthals that was advantageous for us since we inherited their resistance to disease in the new territory we were moving into. Maybe for them it was a disadvantage? Maybe we gave them something from our DNA that their DNA was not prepared to handle?