RE: The redneck strike again.
May 3, 2014 at 12:37 pm
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2014 at 12:39 pm by Confused Ape.)
(May 3, 2014 at 11:18 am)Riketto Wrote: Most of you say that you believe in evolution and
at the same time you say that the human nervous system hasn't change in the last few thousand years.
Ötzi is 5,000 years old. Studies included sequencing his genome.
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If his nervous system was different to that of modern humans, the studies would have discovered it.
You seem to be under the impression that human intellect/intelligence has advanced in the past few thousand years. Our technology and scientific discoveries have but the pioneers in technology and science were people living thousands of years ago.
Ötzi lived around 3,300 BC. The Neolithic Revolution started 12,000 years ago.
Quote: Archaeological data indicates that the domestication of various types of plants and animals evolved in separate locations worldwide, starting in the geological epoch of the Holocene[2] around 12,000 years ago.[3]
However, the Neolithic Revolution involved far more than the adoption of a limited set of food-producing techniques. During the next millennia it would transform the small and mobile groups of hunter-gatherers that had hitherto dominated human history into sedentary societies based in built-up villages and towns. These societies radically modified their natural environment by means of specialized food-crop cultivation (e.g., irrigation and deforestation), and employed other technologies such as food storage, all of which allowed extensive surplus food production. These developments provided the basis for high population density settlements, specialization and division of labour, trading economies, the development of non-portable art, architecture, and culture, centralized administrations and political structures, hierarchical ideologies, depersonalized systems of knowledge (e.g., writing) and private property ownership.
When something has never been done before it takes a leap of imagination to come up with the idea and intelligence to figure out how to use it.
Where are the snake and mushroom smilies?