William wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:51:24 -0500, Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> "The first reasonably good evidence of cooking is in the form of 
>> burned bones at the Chinese site of Zhoukoudian dating sometime 
>> between 550,000 and 300,000 years ago.
>
> Burned bones are also evidence that people were at that time bright 
> enough to avoid attracting large toothy predatory animals.
>
> Neolithic man is so dim that park rangers need to tell campers in 
> grizzly country not to leave edible garbage where animals can get it.
>
> William
It's good that you are passionate about this stuff. However, having an 
opinion and finding ways that the evidence *might* support that opinion 
is *not* science. FYI.