After all, whether a Cro-Magnon or a Myhrvold, no bone collector wants to get skinned.

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The earliest fish hooks were probably carved out of wood more than 30, 000 years ago by Cro-Magnon man.

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Instead of entering full sentences into Google's search field, Pell points out, we've been conditioned to use Cro-Magnon collections of disconnected words.

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But during the alignment this summer, they will pass within 34.7 million miles (55.8 million kilometers), thought to be the closest encounter since Cro-Magnon man ruled the Earth.

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Anthropologists now believe Homo sapiens succeeded, unlike other members of the genus Homo, Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon for example, because our brains had a greater capacity for speech and language.

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In Virginia the Democrat made a huge fuss about a thesis Mr McDonnell wrote two decades ago expressing Cro-Magnon views (which he has now distanced himself from) about feminism.

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It's not too far a stretch to imagine some Cro-Magnon connoisseur hoarding the same dinosaur bones Microsoft's Nathan Myhrvold keeps today in his giant warehouse in Redmond, Wash. (see " The Intense Dilettante").

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