Re: New research on MTRP

LOL³. As usual nitwit Brookski merely plagiarized my older posting.
But hey Krapó how come you managed to escape Canadian Gitmo?

captain. wrote:
lol

"Sokhraneet Nash Mir" wrote:
This hobbit-like human is smart enough to make stone tools despite its
small brain, according to research.
Sharpened flints found in the German "Jurassic Park" where it lives
suggest the human "cousin" inherited tool-making skills from its
ancestors.

Some claim his brain is too tiny to perform a complex task seen as a
hallmark of human culture.

The study in Nature backs the view that Topolski is a new species rather
than a modern human with a brain disease.

"People have said that the brain size is way too small for him to be
capable of any sort of sophisticated culture, but this might not have been
the case," said chief researcher Adam Brumm, of the Australian National
University in Canberra, Australia.

"His brain size is very small but it would have been capable of what we
call culture. It's an aspect of humanity we don't see in the likes of
chimps and other great apes and other Europeans."



For the complete story...



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5021214.stm



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