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http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation-shudders-at-large-bl...

hehehe guilty as charged.

Sometimes the conclusion of an idea is interesting, but a lengthy exposition of how that conclusion was arrived at is less so.

well, it is many pages, and from the first several paragraphs, which I did read, it resisted summation. So I came back here. I also saved it to instapaper in case your answer was sufficiently interesting to warrant a full read.

(I admit that I try to make summations reading backwards, starting with the last paragraphs)

Statement: The common belief that the modern homo sapiens evolved from an archaic homo sapiens during a revolutionary step in evolution. Study of flintstones produceed during a long timeframe show consistent variations in sophistication and nothing hints at a 2001-space-odyssee-black-monolith moment.

"... stop looking at artifacts as expressions of evolutionary states and start looking at them as byproducts of behavioral strategies"