JR>I don't see how anyone could conclude that the fossil people that
>you described could be thought of as anything other than just as
>human as you and I.
Did they use complex language? Write? Keep animals? Plant crops?
Worship the one true God (as opposed to bear cults, etc)?
IMHO the scientific evidence is a picture of an emerging humanity,
not necessarily a full humanity (except that the Neanderthals may
have been fully human).
Regards.
Stephen
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