motorollin wrote:
bloodline wrote:
The problem with something as complex as human evolution, it's hard to know the sequence of everything... language doesn't fossilise so well....
Well the creation of cave paintings would require symbolic thought and thus constitutes a form of language, and IIRC the hominids which created them were pre-speech.
They
might have been pre-speech... I don't know enough about early human evolution to really speak with any authority.
Grasping some tool to draw on the cave wall would probably require an opposable thumb, so my guess would be that the opposable thumb allowed drawing which cultivated symbolic thought, which then became the predominant form of language. Speech developed subsequently as a more efficient and flexible means of communication.
I certainly like that idea! :-) A seemingly unrealted topic, that is very related is the "World Simualtion" model of thought... Wiki "False Awakening" for more info.
bloodline wrote:
I sit in a coffee shop and a girl opens a conversation... not really saying much just talking... I think she's rather attractive, and engage her in conversation... in reality I'd rather be pleasuring her in a far more intimate way... We may never get that far, but the small chat we did have would be much more fun than not engaging her at all.
Sounds like you're using language to coerce women in to some kind of seedy rendezvous. Not a bad use of skill of language if you look at it from an evolutionary perspective ;-)
That was just one example. Imagine I was with a friend/person I was not sexually attracted to, but still wanted to maintain a relationship with... Then I can't really think of a better way to keep the bonding than talking :-)
bloodline wrote:
Well, perhaps it only helps to find a mate... I may not be physically attractive, have undesirable personality traits and the timing could be wrong.
Who says?
The potential mate who has decided that I am not suitable.
bloodline wrote:
But without the small talk I might never have got as far as I did :-)
Well I agree it would be pretty unusual to pull without even talking to your intended partner.
Not that unusual if you are in a band... but that is the an unusual situation I guess :lol:
Yeah, seriously... I think though this is a side track of the topic... Small talk is probably just a social activity that maintains bonds.
Not that I have much experience in that area :roll:
The implication of this line, is that you often pull without talking to your target :-)
bloodline wrote:
Fortunately experiments like that are not allowed any more. All I can hope is that we can learn from the study, so the animals did not suffer in vain...
Yeah, like how to totally screw up monkey :madashell:
Well... yeah that too...
