> Date:    Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:32:25 -0600
> From:    Tom Bri <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Intelligence of Stone Age People, was Molecular Mimicry

> On the other hand, I have never seen any evidence, besides Jarred 
> Diamond's
> claims, that modern hunter-gatherers are any great shakes in the brains
> department.

How about the Sentinelese people of the Andaman islands, who refuse almost 
all contact with moderns, and last year drove off with a rain of arrows a 
helicopter attempting to retrieve the bodies of two poachers the people had 
slain? Seems pretty bright to me... all the other tribes in the area have 
been colonized and nearly wiped out.

--Carrie