tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post2002283934199666149..comments2024-02-29T03:57:00.088-05:00Comments on The Mermaid's Tale: Humans are master meaning generators Anne Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-90811364056534438872016-03-11T15:50:56.412-05:002016-03-11T15:50:56.412-05:00There's a Chimp by a tree with a stone
And he ...There's a Chimp by a tree with a stone<br />And he thinks that it ought to be thrown.<br />Does he think it's a shrine?<br />Is it action benign?<br />Or perhaps a behaviour unknown?<br /><br />Thanks for the useful link - I an researching the evolution of human intelligence and feel the only real difference between use and our chimp relatives is that we have discovered a powerful way of passing information from generation.Chris Reynoldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04649202643490746910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-63617529830090532072016-03-03T10:26:34.100-05:002016-03-03T10:26:34.100-05:00Hey, it must be genetic because right after I read...Hey, it must be genetic because right after I read your great post, Holly, I realized that I, too, have piles of books all over the place! The thing about earlier humans is that their books were inscribed on big stone tablets, that archeologists find all piled up underground in ancient sites, but such human-style rocks were too heavy for those primitive Neanders to throw at trees. So, being smart and (almost) human, they scratched hash-tags on rocks instead.Ken Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049713123559138421noreply@blogger.com