From: William Benzon (bbenzon@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun 24 Apr 2005 - 13:16:54 GMT
on 4/23/05 7:43 PM, Scott Chase at osteopilus@yahoo.com wrote:
[snip]
>>
>> Details, details, great minds working on great
>> theories don't sweat the
>> details. As long as it sounds good . . . >
> If a non-anthropologist were to write a book about
> anthopology that states that Tasmanians had TV sets
> but lost these after they migrated to Tasmania from
> Australia on jet skis (which they also lost in their
> tool box) or if someone were to discuss an out of
> America hypothesis that reverses the human trajectory
> across the land bridge into Asia, Europe and Africa,
> that would be a howler right?
I was be satirical in my remarks about details. But I can't help but think
that Aunger just didn't care about getting his neuroscience right as long as
he could weave an appropriately mystifying web of memetic mumbo-jumbo.
Bill B
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