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On Aug 1, 2010, at 10:33 PM, Dennis Brasky wrote: > > By Kate Shaw > > For centuries, people have tried to pinpoint what makes > humans unique... Every animal species is unique in multiple ways. > ...The most current scientific theory > suggests that three main qualities separate Homo sapiens > from other animals: the construction and use of complex > tools, the use of symbolic behavior including language, > art, and ritual, and the domestication of other plants > and animals... Homo Sapiens have supposedly been around for more than two million years but there is no evidence that these three "qualities" have been characteristic of homo sap for more than some ten thousand of them... > ...However, in a new paper in Current Anthropology, Dr. Pat Shipman > suggests a fourth trait unique to humans. Shipman cites humans' long > history of learning about and understanding animals as a unique > trait, calling this > tendency "the animal connection."... What is the difference between this and "quality" three--"domestication of other plants and animals?" > ...She claims that this relationship is the common unifying factor > that > underlies each of the other three previously recognized > human traits, and has played a major role in human > evolution over the last 2.6 million years... And just how is a "relationship" for which there is no evidence dating more than a few millennia supposed to have influenced evolution starting 2.6 million years ago? Shane Mage Porphyry in his Abstinance from Animal Flesh suggests that there are appropriate offerings to all the Gods, and to the highest the only offering acceptable is silence. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
