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Originally Posted by Jarrod
that's very interesting. I find it impressive that we have been able to breed dogs to take advantage of specific features, and get more uses out of them. smell is just one of many features that dogs now provide for us.
I also understand the Neanderthals lacked the ability to understand facial expressions and things like simple hand gestures. so they had almost no way to communicate with one another. although, I understand that they were in many ways the more intelligent species. they made better use of there resources, and were more efficient. if they had found an effective way to communicate, they would proberly have ended up being the dominant species.
Jarrod
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It is the belief that they lived in smaller groups..did they live in smaller groups because they could not communicate easily or did they not communicate easily because they lived in small groups.
Maybe they did not have enough left overs to feed a dog whereas humans because they lived (presumably) in larger groups had left overs.
The source that put forward the view I offer suggested that it was perhaps the dog that took us on not the other way about... maybe we followed dog packs at first because they were able to herd beasts over cliffs... maybe they in effect taught us how to hunt
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When you think of the erly hunting prctices which involved running herds over cliffs one would think that dogs developed that style of hunting and we came along to pick up their scraps
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alex