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Daryl Bambic

Planet of the Apemen: Battle for Earth | Watch Free Documentary Online - 0 views

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neanderthal homosapiens evolution

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    Why homo sapiens survived and the other hominids did not.
Catherine Preston

Female Chimpanzees and Tool Use: Animal Planet - 0 views

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female tool animal planet evolution chimps

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Joe Inhaber

Ape Genius reveals depth of animal intelligence - Telegraph - 1 views

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ape genius intelligence animal

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  • By Paul Eccleston
  • 5:00PM BST 02 May 2008
  • Chimpanzees in Senegal make and sharpen spears with their teeth to go hunting. Like our own ancestors they have learned to use tools to kill their quarry more effectively.
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  • the skills to make a lethal weapon.
  • Ape Genius - which gives a fascinating insight into the depth of intelligence of animals who share 99 per cent of human genes
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  • Although they can be taught to recognise symbols and words they don't have the mental capacity to contribute to a 'conversation' - and they don't make small talk
  • And most important of all although they can imitate, they can't teach or build on the achievements others have made - unlike more successful humans.
  • But if apes have the power to reaso
  • n, learn skills, feel emotion and co-operate in a frenzied tree-top hunt for Colobus monkeys as chimpanzees do, why don't we have a planet of the apes?
  • Daryl Bambic on 14 Dec 11
     
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Daryl Bambic

2012: End of the World Perceptions and Myths CyArk - 0 views

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world myths millenarianism

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  • adily fueled by our market economy, in which countless vendors have rushed to fuel the flames of fear in order to sell survivalist goods such as dry food rations, duct tape, firearms, and plastic sheeting - all strongly echoic of the y2k scare less of than a decade ago
  • pecific time frame in our
  • eschatology
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  • n era of our present world comes to an end and experiences a renewal of some sort
  • Norsemen
  • Ragnarok,
  • entire world is temporarily flooded and only two humans survive to repopulate a renewed planet
  • Hopi Indians
  • on-Hopi ways
  • shamans
  • panish Conquistadores
  • creator spirit Maasaw
  • concepts of creation, destruction, and renewa
  • Hinduism
  • Hinduism
  • Shiva,
  • Robert Oppenheimer
  • atomic bomb,
  • Abrahamist religions (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity) deal with Armageddon and the Last Judgement of all human souls by God, and also tell the story of Noah's Ark
  • awm al-Qiyamah (Day of Resurrection)
  • nd the Book of Daniel's
  • Revelation
  • Daryl Bambic on 11 Jan 12
     
    comparative myths of the end of time
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