BAJR Wrote:Wot P Prentice said
How could they be "like" us. no more than you are like a Peruvian Maize Farmer.
How about convergent evolution being applied to 'us'......
Definition
noun
Evolution wherein organisms evolve structures that are similar structures or functions in spite of their evolutionary ancestors being very dissimilar or unrelated.
.........and that evolutionary changes are dictated by the particular pressures..if the pressures change back to similar to a former state then shouldn't the resultant forms be similar to the previous ones?
And, I think you'll find I am very like a Peruvian farmer. As Tool pointed out: I have to breath, eat and drink, I want to procreate and I use the internet.
However, I would concede that my lungs and blood aren't adapted for living at high altitudes and I don't believe in a jaguar god/spirits - but do all Peruvian farmers?
I have, and always will have a problem with archaeologists filling in the gaps in current knowledge by making up what could have been - you may as well have them talking to alien visitors from mars. If we don't know we don't know. The act of making it up is just as biased by modern thinking as the 'new archaeology' claimed procedural archaeologists were. It's not any more valid than because its constructed free of scientific evidence, it is less so.......
Though now that rant is free from my turmoiled brain, I have to say I liked the video. It is important to challenge current preconceptions, and even more important to engage with our ultimate clients - the public.