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From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: AI - the real problem
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.170426.7422@psych.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <1473@ucl-cs.uucp> <4083@aipna.ed.ac.uk> <162@tdatirv.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1991 17:04:26 GMT

In article <162@tdatirv.UUCP> sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:
>
>The earliest hominds,
>2.5 milion years ago had *far* smaller brains than we.  (Proportionally
>to thier body the brain of Autralopithecus afarensis was about the same
>size as a chimpanzee's).  It was not until about 100 thousand years ago
>(give or take a few tens of thousands) that a modern sized brain appeared.

Neandrethal atually had a brain LARGER than that of homo sapiens sapiens.
Didn't they appear before 100,000 years ago?
-christopher-

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Christopher D. Green
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