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...exhibit shows the skills of Cro-Magnon...
...living." It is a perfectly plausible statement but one that is likely to annoy those who prefer their original sin with religion, and psychologists who hold that aggression is mainly learned, not instinctual. Ardrey carefully avoids the word instinct, preferring the suggestion that as direct descendants of Cro-Magnon hunters, we retain "certain human propensities for the chase...
...failed to advance our knowledge of ourselves, and elsewhere discusses the value of carbon dating, molecular genetics and the study of coprolites-fossilized feces-in revealing our prehistoric past. He asserts that the fate of Neanderthal man is unknown, and two pages later says with equal certainty that Cro-Magnon man killed him off. Finally, he notes dourly the prevalence of a current "doomsday attitude," yet closes with the specter of a new Ice Age that could end modern civilization...
...Crimson regrets printing several errors of fact in a December 16 article about Alexander Marshack's research into the origins of human communications. Cro-Magnon man is a member of Homo sapiens sapiens, and not a different species. The Upper Paleolithic era dates from 35,000 to 10,000 B.C., and not from 10,000 to 8000 B.C. as reported. The Achevlian rib engravings are not exactly the same kind as those done in the Upper Paleolithic, but are made in the same way over a period of time...
...scientist noted that prehistorians and archaeologists had previously placed the advent of communication with the Homo sapiens sapiens, which followed Cro-Magnon in evolution...