I don't see the connection either and they don't explain. Kind of like being on this list. It reminds me of the 50's movie, was it Invasion of the Body Snatchers? where it ends, keep watching the skies ... ----- Original Message ----- From: To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: 1/13/2006 8:31:40 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] anthropology? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060112/ap_on_sc/south_africa_ancient_mystery;_ylt=AvhyWWykPtpozcg_PGWTjsMDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl This portion grabbed my curiosity -- in what way (anthropologists out there?) does the fact (?) that humans used to be vulnerable to both above and below explain anything about why or how "we" view the world? <<Berger concluded man's ancestors had to survive not just being hunted from the ground, but from the air. Such discoveries are "key to understanding why we humans today view the world they way we do," he said. Berger's research has been reviewed by others and is due to appear in the February edition of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.>>