Human ancestor far more advanced than thought

BoneKracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1499 Location: U.S.A.

A new discovery shows that Homo heidelbergensis was making stone-tipped spears 500,000 years ago, some 200,000 years earlier than mankind was recently thought to have developed such technology.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6109/942
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aCOSwt · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 12:16 am Post subject:

When did the homo-whatever realize that if you expect some funding for your project next year, you need to publish something really unbelievable in the very beginnings of the fourth term ?
It's almost certainly pre 2011. In 2011, we had the supraluminal neutrinos.
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BoneKracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1499 Location: U.S.A.

Damned scientists.
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sikpuppy · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 2:41 am Post subject:

I saw a video of a crow making a tool to hook a worm out of a bottle. I also saw an octopus that can unscrew a jar. I don't think that men are going to find either their fishing skills or their jar unscrewing for the girl-next-door skills under threat just yet.