Carrie Coineandubh wrote:
>> 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
>

Isolationism is a sign of intelligence? Non sequitur.