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Saturday, September 9, 2006
5:24:00 PM EDT
Hearing Nothing at the moment
All you people who thought that humans were the height of perfection as far as primates go, guess again:
Neanderthals are often thought of as the stray branch in the human family tree, but research now suggests the modern human is likely the odd man out.
"What people tend to do is draw a line from our ancestors straight to ourselves, and any group that doesn't seem to fit on that line is divergent, distinct, unusual, strange," researcher Erik Trinkaus, an anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis, told LiveScience today. "But in terms of evolution of our family tree, the genus Homo, we're the outliers and the Neanderthals are more toward the core."
Humans are not at the inevitable end of a sequence, Trinkaus said. "It just happens that we happen to be alive today and Neanderthals are not."
Yes. Neanderthals are normal. We're the weird ones. In the primate lunchroom, we're the ones at the back table, near the bathrooms. Don't try sitting with the other primates. They'll just fling poo at you.
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5:24:00 PM EDT
Hearing Nothing at the moment
Humans = Freaks
All you people who thought that humans were the height of perfection as far as primates go, guess again:
Neanderthals are often thought of as the stray branch in the human family tree, but research now suggests the modern human is likely the odd man out.
"What people tend to do is draw a line from our ancestors straight to ourselves, and any group that doesn't seem to fit on that line is divergent, distinct, unusual, strange," researcher Erik Trinkaus, an anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis, told LiveScience today. "But in terms of evolution of our family tree, the genus Homo, we're the outliers and the Neanderthals are more toward the core."
Humans are not at the inevitable end of a sequence, Trinkaus said. "It just happens that we happen to be alive today and Neanderthals are not."
Yes. Neanderthals are normal. We're the weird ones. In the primate lunchroom, we're the ones at the back table, near the bathrooms. Don't try sitting with the other primates. They'll just fling poo at you.
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I was the Designated Driver for our family at a cookout yesterday, and the only caffeine they had available was Coca-Cola C2.
It was bloody terrible. Thin Is In, but I'd rather do 2000 situps a day than sacrifice taste in so awful a manner. As you might imagine, I've been slapped in the face a few times in my life, several times by girls who were obviously good at it... and I prefer the taste of my own blood to Coca Cola C2.
In fact, the only time I've been more disappointed opening something was when my then-boyfriend gave me a small felt box one Christmas.... and instead of an engagement ring, it contained earrings shaped like little lighthouses. My first impulse was to shove the entire box down his throat.
My big present that year was a used jet-ski that my friend Chrissy and I drunkenly crashed into one of those huge metal starboard/port buoys that tell you which way to drive into a harbor or something. She said she "was trying to avoid the seal."
9/11/06 2:13 AM
natalie