Re: Online Paper: "Ideas are Not Replicators but Minds Are" by Liane Gabora

From: derek gatherer (dgatherer2002@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Mon 27 Oct 2003 - 09:38:57 GMT

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     --- Keith Henson <hkhenson@rogers.com> wrote: > At

    > Calvin argues that the final 2 fold expansion of the
    > brain was largely
    > driven by the human line moving into areas where
    > accurate projectile
    > hunting was the only way to get through the winter.
    > Lots about "glacial
    > pumping" in _Ascent of Mind._

    I can see how that might work, but doesn't the palaeontological record suggest that the final transition from archaic H. sapiens to H. sapiens sapiens occurred about 135,000 bp, and therefore
    _before_ the migration to the glacial north?

    I haven't read that book by Calvin, so perhaps he has a counter-argument....

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