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    Ingredients for a New Synthesis," Entropy, Information and Evolution: New

    Perspectives on Physical and Biological Evolution, pp. 160-163.

    46. Don't console yourself with the notion that Neanderthal were too primitive to

    mark the loss.  Neanderthal had an aesthetic sensibility--they buried their dead with

    flowers, and used ocher dyes.  (Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin, People of the

    Lake, p. 154.)  They carried out elaborate rituals, crafted tools and weapons,

    cooked their food, and made fur clothing with bone needles.  (J.B. Birdsell, Human

    Evolution: An Introduction to the New Physical Anthropology, Rand McNally & Co,

    Chicago, 1972, pp. 282-283.)  Archaeologists in China have even found the

    remains of Neanderthal houses.  (E.N. Anderson, The Food of China, p. 9.)

    47. Lest you think that man in the paradisal state that preceded civilization would

    never have stooped to the barbarity of massacring a near cousin, consider the case

    of the chimpanzee.  When a hungry chimp is looking for a juicy bundle of meat, he

    is quite likely to satisfy his craving by murdering another primate.  Jane Goodall

    describes in glowing detail how one carnivorous chimp managed to supply himself

    with cold cuts by creeping up on a group of baboons, grabbing a juvenile, swinging

    the victim over his head, then thwacking its skull on the rocks until it was dead.

    This particular chimpanzee killer was not the only one who enjoyed a bit of baboon

    flesh.  His troop-mates crowded around him all day begging for a taste.  They even

    avidly licked the leaves on which tiny drops of blood had fallen.  Goodall's chimps,

    in fact,  feasted fairly frequently on slaughtered baboons and colobus monkeys.

    (Jane Goodall, In The Shadow of Man, p. 200.  Groups of chimpanzees also hunt

    colobus monkeys: see Christophe Boesch and Hedwige Boesch-Acherman, "Dim

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