re: #154 mich-again

I dinged you up about 3 sentences into that just for the effort you extend educating. Not joking. I learn so much here.

So your theory is the ability to verbalize is what separated us from the Neanderthals. OK, I’ll admit that is a compelling argument. But I think its the link to dogs. The fossil record supports the dog hypothesis.

The Homo Sapiens- Dog symbiotic relationship is a compelling explanation. Especially to current dog owners who occasionally wonder why people ever started letting these animals into their homes. Why not raccoons or geese?

If you can’t speak, it’s kinda hard to call your dog. I do’t think it has anything to do with Neanderthals not embracing kinship with animals, or empathy for their fellow tribe members, for anthropologists have excavated sites in which they buried their dead surrounded by the skulls of cave bears and covered with flowers.