Famous Cave Paintings Might Not Be From Humans

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http://www.npr.org/2012/06/15/155009945/famous-cave-paintings-might-not-be-from-humans?sc=fb&cc=fp

"What we are saying is that we must entertain the possibility that these paintings were made by Neanderthals," Pike says. Those were humans' closest relatives, but they are not our species.

Pike says some of these paintings in Spain are at least 40,800 years old. At that time, Neanderthals had been running around Europe for 200,000 or 300,000 years. Modern humans had just arrived from Africa.

Not QUITE as striking as it sounds from the headline, it should say "might not have been from modern humans" as Neathertals are "humans" that is , from the genus (Homo neanderthalensis or an extinct human sub-species spending on who you talk to) as opposed to Homo Sapiens , but theres never been any evidence that they had this sort of creativity, that was (and still is, this is very circumstantial) assumed to be a modern human development.

The general wisdom still is that only modern humans did such artwork, but this is leaning toward the possibility that we were not the first, my "gut" doesn't have a problem beliving that now-extinct ancestors of modern humans did this stuff, but there is not any evidence for it (seemingly) until recently.

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That or if we still dont feel convinced just rattle off some mumbo-jumbo and say "quantum mechanics" and that explains it ! lol

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That or if we still dont feel convinced just rattle off some mumbo-jumbo and say "quantum mechanics" and that explains it ! lol

quantum mechanics⇔god did it

For those unfamiliar with logic symbols ⇔ is material equivalence.

Yeah, I think theoretic physicists are just priest's.

Edited June 20, 2012 by Vater Araignee

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quantum mechanics⇔god did it

For those unfamiliar with logic symbols ⇔ is material equivalence.

Yeah, I think theoretic physicists are just priest's.

They do have a priest like quality , one in particular is "well we understand it let us explain...<insert explination that sounds reasonable>, but its still all a mystery at heart" isn't that a paradox? (for both groups)