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Humph Warden Bennett

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Sailor Boy
« on: February 20, 2018, 03:48:20 PM »
From the Graun.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/20/homo-erectus-may-have-been-a-sailor-and-able-to-speak

Writing as an anorak, I get the impression that this is the "lumpers" ganging up on the "splitters".

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Re: Sailor Boy
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2018, 05:28:13 PM »
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
Robert Macfarlane