>Glenn quoted Walker and Shipmen re: the poor erectus who died from a bad
>disease:
>
><<The implication stared me in the face: someone else took care of
>her. Alone, unable to move, delirious, in pain, 1808 wouldn't have
>lasted two days in the African bush, much less the length of time her
>skeleton told us she had lived.>>
>
>This implication isn't staring at me for some reason. How do the authors know
>this creature was "alone"? Why couldn't she be part of the group sitting there
>by their water source, fighting off predators while she painfully sipped
>water?
Still, someone was caring for her, which was the point Walker and Shipmen
were making.
>
><< Someone else, I couldn't help thinking, sat with her through the long, dark
>African nights for no good reason except human concern.>>
>
>Who wrote this? Alan Alda?
>
>There are just too many assumptions here to speculate about supposed human
>behavior.
>
To be fair to Glenn, you ought to enumerate those assumptions, so they can
be responded to.
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