Quote Originally Posted by slapout9 View Post
MarcT, I have another question. What about the development of language and the effect of people talking to each other instead of trying to poke each other full of holes with stuff?
Weeeellllll, depends on when language developed . There's a modicum of evidence that good ol' HSS (aka us) wiped out Neaderthals (okay, kept a few of their women... my ex-room-mate was descended from one). There is some pretty good evidence that we had language then, while the Neanderthals may not have (personally, I think they did, but that's another story having to do with the curious case of 2 hyoid bones...).