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18 Nov 06 - 08:37 PM (#1888013) Subject: BS: What have Australopithiceans done for us From: Rapparee Well?? |
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18 Nov 06 - 08:43 PM (#1888019) Subject: RE: BS: What have Australopithiceans done for us From: Peace Sheesh. Be more specific, Rapaire. Australopithecus Afarensis, Africanus, Robustus or Boisei? |
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18 Nov 06 - 08:46 PM (#1888023) Subject: RE: BS: What have Australopithiceans done for us From: Rapparee Any and all of 'em. Especially the ones from Boise. |
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18 Nov 06 - 08:51 PM (#1888031) Subject: RE: BS: What have Australopithiceans done for us From: Peace They gave us the word 'prehominid', and caused Darwin to happen, or not if Creationism is yer thing. They coined the expression, "Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!" They provided someone to raise Lord Greystoke. Uh, that's all I can think of for now. |
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18 Nov 06 - 08:57 PM (#1888034) Subject: RE: BS: What have Australopithiceans done for us From: bobad They provide employment for anthropologists. |
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18 Nov 06 - 08:59 PM (#1888036) Subject: RE: BS: What have Australopithiceans done for us From: Rapparee But they didn't invent the vending machine, television, fast food, bodice-ripper novels, or ANY of the things we take for granted and which make up today's civilization. They didn't have to worry about much of anything except an occassional sabertooth tiger or leftover dinosaur or something. I'm not an evolutionist OR a creationist. I'm a sollipsist. |
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18 Nov 06 - 08:59 PM (#1888037) Subject: RE: BS: What have Australopithiceans done for us From: Peace Does your wife know? |
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18 Nov 06 - 09:00 PM (#1888038) Subject: RE: BS: What have Australopithiceans done for us From: Rapparee Sure does, I think. |
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18 Nov 06 - 09:21 PM (#1888043) Subject: RE: BS: What have Australopithiceans done for us From: GUEST,memyself They've taken a lot of heat off the Australians. Of course, maybe that's not a good thing ... |
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18 Nov 06 - 11:02 PM (#1888069) Subject: RE: BS: What have Australopithiceans done for us From: Bunnahabhain Invented parody threads? |
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19 Nov 06 - 12:12 AM (#1888083) Subject: RE: BS: What have Australopithiceans done for us From: Rowan The way they poke their noses out of the sediments every few years, just to let a few more keen youngsters write PhDs, I think is terrific! Cheers, Rowan who couldn't be bothered rising to the other thread's bait |