On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:32:25 -0500, Tom Bri <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


>
> 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.

I'm told that these great words in the preamble to the constitution for  
the United States of America were invented by the Six Nations people of  
aboriginal America (from their constitution). "We hold this truth to be  
self-evident; that all men are created equal..."
IMHO that took brains.

William