[Rockhounds] Civilization

[J Bryan Kramer]

We intelligent reptiles would need room in their skulls for the higher
brain lobes. Which so far as I know have not be found. And reptiles use the
same biology as we do and so the idea that they have some mysterious way to
get around this is unlikely to say the least. Remember what, I think
Asimove said: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof"

Nope it was Sagan/Laplace:
 “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” was a phrase made
popular by Carl Sagan who reworded Laplace's principle, which says that “*the
weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its
strangeness*”

““There exists a law…inborn of our hearts…by natural intuition. … If our
lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any
and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.””
Cicero

J Bryan Krämer       North Florida, USA
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On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 10:46 PM Edward Tindell <ed-tindell at sprynet.com>
wrote:

> I ran across this and thought it might be interesting:
>
>
>
>                 "Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a
> student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a
> culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or
> grinding stones. But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in
> an
> ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then
> healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg,
> you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt
> for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg
> long enough for the bone to heal. A broken femur that has healed is
> evidence
> that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the
> wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through
> recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization
> starts, Mead said."
>
>
>
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