"robert casey" wrote in message
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And the stuff cavemen knew would be stuff a city boy like myself doesn't
have a clue about. How to hunt animals with nothing better than crude
spears and rocks, knowing what plants are safe to eat and what's
poisonous, etc.... Different environments, they didn't need to know about
car insurance.

This is an item that people overlook when they talk about cavemen or
"primitive aborigines", etc. Most of us would die before we learned enough
to survive under the conditions they lived in. Even a genius, out of his
own environment, is helpless unless and until he learns how to survive in
the new one. Our caveman ancestors were no dummies.

Dee, N8UZE