Are you embarrassed to be a homo sapiens sapiens?

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Last Conformist

Carbon dating is never used to date anything remotely near the chimp-human divergence. Get a clue.

"But it is also possible, he said, that the dating of the early human fossils is wrong, or that the dating of other, older fossils used in his calculations is wrong, which would partially undercut the interbreeding theory. "

Get a clue yourself. What do you think the fossils were used for, to pick their teeth? Carbon dating is "the gold standard" to which the average mutation rate calculations are compared.

[Vince278]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
On Borneo, shaved orangutan females are apparently popular as a cheaper subsistute for prostitutes.

How ugly are the women there?

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by SpencerH


"But it is also possible, he said, that the dating of the early human fossils is wrong, or that the dating of other, older fossils used in his calculations is wrong, which would partially undercut the interbreeding theory. "

Get a clue yourself. What do you think the fossils were used for, to pick their teeth? Carbon dating is "the gold standard" to which the average mutation rate calculations are compared.

They're dated via stratigraphic correlation, calibrated by radiometric dates from long-lived nucleids, idiot. Radiocarbon is useess for timedepths of more than about 50k years.

[DanS]

Isn't Borneo where cannibals still exist? (No offense to the Bornean polytubbies here.)

[Odin]

Originally posted by SpencerH


"But it is also possible, he said, that the dating of the early human fossils is wrong, or that the dating of other, older fossils used in his calculations is wrong, which would partially undercut the interbreeding theory. "

Get a clue yourself. What do you think the fossils were used for, to pick their teeth? Carbon dating is "the gold standard" to which the average mutation rate calculations are compared.

Carbon-14 dating is useless beyond 45,000 to 50,000 yrs, genius.

Objects more then a few hundred thousand years old are dated by potassium-argon and uranium-lead dating.

[Dauphin]

I feel the love in this thread.

[Elok]

So, uh, Chavs are basically the UK's answer to our "wiggers," only with a less racist but semantically indeterminate name? I always figured they would be a more original loser-phenomenon. Like, say, paint-sniffers who wear a lot of leather, drink knockoff "absinthe" made of gin mixed with tonic water and turpentine, and beat women, or something. Is America's cultural imperialism hurting the rest of the world's ability to develop its own distinct human-vermin subculture?

[Dis]

the class system has always been there. It's just changed over the years as culture changes.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Elok
So, uh, Chavs are basically the UK's answer to our "wiggers," only with a less racist but semantically indeterminate name? I always figured they would be a more original loser-phenomenon. Like, say, paint-sniffers who wear a lot of leather, drink knockoff "absinthe" made of gin mixed with tonic water and turpentine, and beat women, or something. Is America's cultural imperialism hurting the rest of the world's ability to develop its own distinct human-vermin subculture?

As Dis says, it's always been there. Chav's have been in existance for a long long time, they've just not been classified and identified as that distinct grouping until recently. I've seen a Noel Coward movie (from the 50s I believe) with reference to chav culture that is amusingly relevent today - including the penchant for burberry; only they weren't called 'chavs' in those days.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

After reading through the first pages, as a former anthropology major, I had a lot to add.

Then I kept reading. I now have nothing to add, except the question: why should I care what a "chav" is?