Maybe it’s true that Neanderthals would never have developed beyond what they were before they died out. After all, they didn’t seem to progress much over their quarter-million-year reign in Europe: Pretty much the same tools for millennia. But they did survive for a period longer than we have currently occupied their former places.
And maybe the reason they survived so long is that they didn’t put octopuses on their faces. Say what?
Live Sci=nce online has posted a story by Mindy Weisberger under “strange news.” * Here’s the title: “A Woman Placed an Octopus on Her Face for a Photo. Then It Bit Her.” Okay, I’ll spare mentioning the woman’s name, but I can’t help but comment on human folly. It’s human folly that will probably keep us from enduring as long as the Neanderthals.
Why would someone put a live octopus on her face? Or why would a couple of Peruvian lovers kiss while balancing precariously on a bridge over a road in Cusco? Yeah. Precariously. Maybeth Espinoz hopped onto the railing, wrapped her legs around Hector Vidal, lost her balance, and as she fell backward toward the road dragged him with her. **
Neanderthals lasted a very long time. True, they didn’t build bridges over busy highways. They didn’t catch octopuses as far as we know (or at least, as far as I know). In either case, I’m guessing that Neanderthals wouldn’t put a wild cephalopod with a beak and toxic saliva on their faces and wouldn’t lean precariously over a high perch just for a brief kiss.
Yes, the Neanderthals did die out. And maybe something like putting an octopus on a face or falling off a high rock might have done them in. But in our claim for superiority, I think we might consider the many similar instances of our folly that diminish that superiority.
*https://www.livescience.com/octopus-bit-womans-face.html
**https://www.ibtimes.com/couple-falls-their-death-while-making-out-bridge-peru-2811867
And maybe the reason they survived so long is that they didn’t put octopuses on their faces. Say what?
Live Sci=nce online has posted a story by Mindy Weisberger under “strange news.” * Here’s the title: “A Woman Placed an Octopus on Her Face for a Photo. Then It Bit Her.” Okay, I’ll spare mentioning the woman’s name, but I can’t help but comment on human folly. It’s human folly that will probably keep us from enduring as long as the Neanderthals.
Why would someone put a live octopus on her face? Or why would a couple of Peruvian lovers kiss while balancing precariously on a bridge over a road in Cusco? Yeah. Precariously. Maybeth Espinoz hopped onto the railing, wrapped her legs around Hector Vidal, lost her balance, and as she fell backward toward the road dragged him with her. **
Neanderthals lasted a very long time. True, they didn’t build bridges over busy highways. They didn’t catch octopuses as far as we know (or at least, as far as I know). In either case, I’m guessing that Neanderthals wouldn’t put a wild cephalopod with a beak and toxic saliva on their faces and wouldn’t lean precariously over a high perch just for a brief kiss.
Yes, the Neanderthals did die out. And maybe something like putting an octopus on a face or falling off a high rock might have done them in. But in our claim for superiority, I think we might consider the many similar instances of our folly that diminish that superiority.
*https://www.livescience.com/octopus-bit-womans-face.html
**https://www.ibtimes.com/couple-falls-their-death-while-making-out-bridge-peru-2811867
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