tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13336104.post6507613098134937132..comments2024-01-07T13:24:03.640+00:00Comments on Nothing Tra La La?: Plain speaking0tralalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06818587472660040921noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13336104.post-91980103016276421942008-04-04T04:03:00.000+01:002008-04-04T04:03:00.000+01:00No, but they've got dumb cat brains that were neve...No, but they've got dumb cat brains that were never going anywhere. What if the chimps didn't have neanders and us cramping their style?<BR/><BR/>mnwykem!Rob Stradlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02622504337859973159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13336104.post-90254546660575912582008-04-03T15:34:00.000+01:002008-04-03T15:34:00.000+01:00Hmmm... That is interesting, and I've heard of rat...Hmmm... That is interesting, and I've heard of rather than read him.<BR/><BR/>But apes and lions also live in young-supporting communes. And they don't have Sistine Ceilings. Yet.0tralalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818587472660040921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13336104.post-84166292245527204682008-04-03T14:51:00.000+01:002008-04-03T14:51:00.000+01:00Oh I'm not saying you're wrong - just that I quite...Oh I'm not saying you're wrong - just that I quite like my world of clean water, Ella Fitzgerald, and hardly any lions, and wouldn't want to go back to Africa, thanks.<BR/><BR/>Have you read any Richard Leakey?<BR/><BR/>He's become a dodgy politico in his old age, but his paleoanthropology is cracking stuff.<BR/><BR/>He's got a theory that the entirety of Human culture (why we stopped racing lions in the first place) is all to do with us being bipedal (HOW we raced lions in the first place.)<BR/><BR/>Nutshelled: Because human females need small pelvic girdles in order to walk upright, they must give birth to young way too early. Consequently they drop these helpless foetuses, which require impossible levels of supervision for solitary animals. Hence the grouping together in bands and sharing of parental duties, development of language and social skills, campfire tales to pass the time... and eventually the Sistine Chapel. <BR/><BR/>Meesa lika dees.Rob Stradlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02622504337859973159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13336104.post-45892260321935033722008-04-03T13:07:00.000+01:002008-04-03T13:07:00.000+01:00Read Renaissance plays or history and see how litt...Read Renaissance plays or history and see how little we are different. In fact, look at how groups of apes operate and see what a short distance we've come.<BR/><BR/>I don't think we're any more intelligent, but language has let us pass information on to subsequent generations. Got the book on ape metaphysics to read before a longer post on this!0tralalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818587472660040921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13336104.post-68054456890108712062008-04-02T17:53:00.000+01:002008-04-02T17:53:00.000+01:00Modern Man: "If I stayed out 'til quarter to thre...Modern Man: "If I stayed out 'til quarter to three, would you lock the door?"<BR/><BR/>Renaissance Man: "Had we but world enough and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime."<BR/><BR/>Savannah Man: "Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! " ("Shag! Eat! Shag! Kill! Shag!")<BR/><BR/>I'm claiming progress.Rob Stradlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02622504337859973159noreply@blogger.com