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Scientists Postulate Extinct Hominid With 150 IQ
Hugh Pickens writes "Neuroscientists Gary Lynch and Richard Granger have an interesting article in Discover Magazine about the Boskops, an extinct hominid that had big eyes, child-like faces, and forebrains roughly 50% larger than modern man indicating they may have had an average intelligence of around 150, making them geniuses among Homo sapiens. The combination of a large cranium and immature face would look decidedly unusual to modern eyes, but not entirely unfamiliar. Such faces peer out from the covers of countless science fiction books and are often attached to 'alien abductors' in movies. Naturalist Loren Eiseley wrote: 'Back there in the past, ten thousand years ago. The man of the future, with the big brain, the small teeth. He lived in Africa. His brain was bigger than your brain.' The history of evolutionary studies has been dogged by the almost irresistible idea that evolution leads to greater complexity, to animals that are more advanced than their predecessor, yet the existence of the Boskops argues otherwise — that humans with big brains, and perhaps great intelligence, occupied a substantial piece of southern Africa in the not very distant past, and that they eventually gave way to smaller-brained, possibly less advanced Homo sapiens — that is, ourselves. 'With 30 percent larger brains than ours now, we can readily calculate that a population with a mean brain size of 1,750 cc would be expected to have an average IQ of 149,' write Lynch and Granger. But why did they go extinct? 'Maybe all that thoughtfulness was of no particular survival value in 10,000 BC. Lacking the external hard drive of a literate society, the Boskops were unable to exploit the vast potential locked up in their expanded cortex,' write Lynch and Granger. 'They were born just a few millennia too soon.'"
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I guess it didn't involve screwing ... she wouldn't have noticed. Or maybe it did, and that was the problem.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Neuroscientists Gary Lynch and Richard Granger have an interesting article in Discover Magazine about the Boskops, an extinct hominid that had big eyes, child-like faces, and forebrains roughly 50% larger than modern man indicating they may have had an average intelligence of around 150, making them geniuses among Homo sapiens.
...anybody? Anybody? Come on, I'd at least expect one first post troll to take the bait...
*sigh* All right, all right, but don't say I never did anything for you lot. The obligatory response:
"Or geniuses among $OPPOSITE_POLITICAL_PARTY. lawl lawl lawl lawl"
I swear, you people, if you need a bad joke done at all these days, you have to do it yourself...
No it is not socialist. Unless you also consider publics schools, the court system, police and military to also be socialist. Just because it is a social program, or publicly funded does not automatically make it socialist.
OK, then. What IS socialist? If charging anyone who pays taxes to fund a government program that gives services to all, regardless if they pay for it or not is not socialist, then what is?
Socialism is defined as a political theory advocating state ownership of industry. Education would be an industry if the government didn't take it over. Sure, there are private schools, but you pay for public schools whether you pay for them or not. Same with universal health care. You are taking money from the rich (those that can pay taxes) and giving it to everyone. It's socialist.
So, yeah public schools are socialist.
But having socialist programs will not make us socialist. It will make us MORE socialist. It usually makes whatever program the government has taken over suck. Go to your post office, court house or any other government building. Go to your doctor's office. See a difference? Yeah. The post office has white, hard floors, white, hard walls, florescent lighting, no seats, and the only "art" is the FBI's most wanted list. Would you go to a doctor whose waiting room looked like that?