Quick question: How the fuck did the species in Genus Homo get extinct? Need it for an essay I have to hand in tomorrow

It snowed alllll day yesterday - 8+ inches of snow, and we're supposed to get more within the next 3 days. Oh yeah...there's a sheet of ice under the snow, so driving to work this morning was scary!

Yesterday with windchill it hit -45 celsius. Today it could hit -50....

Huzzah?

snow AND ice at the same time??

sigh

The ice came via freezing rain Saturday night.
It is really pretty outside though...at the moment. Nice and sunny. Cold.

Maybe my DVD will arrive today. That would make me happy, happy, happy!

It snowed alllll day yesterday - 8+ inches of snow, and we're supposed to get more within the next 3 days. Oh yeah...there's a sheet of ice under the snow, so driving to work this morning was scary!

Yesterday with windchill it hit -45 celsius. Today it could hit -50....

Huzzah?

Ah yes, you're up north, too. Did you also get some of this snow?

yeah we got 4 inches or so. it never gets this cold here though!

look at ye having fun with your coldness and snowness!

Global warming my ass!

Fun?? Is that what I'm having?

Only if I had a couple skis attached to my feet and I was absent from work. Oh, and a hot tub and a toddy of some sort to greet me afterwards. *sigh*

snow is fun all by itself, you can make snowballs and throw'em at old ladies, you can make snowangels, you can pee in the snow, you can combine all those activities into one pandemonium of entertainment even

the sky is the limit!

[djskrimp]

Quick question: How the fuck did the species in Genus Homo get extinct? Need it for an essay I have to hand in tomorrow

" The new member of the genus was nearly as large as Modern Mankind and its intelligence was quickly growing. Developing even better tools and weapons, the only hominid to inhabit the earth between 1,000,000 B.C. was Homo erectus. Mankind's curiosity had led him to using and testing fire as a tool when it was made available naturally by occurrences such as lightning. It had existed naturally about him for millions of years, but Homo erectus was the first to tame fire. At first they surely captured it from a natural source and maintained it and nurtured it. Soon they developed the ability to create it. Taming of fire, or the ability to create and maintain it, is a wondrous feat of the mind. It gave Mankind the ability to defend itself against predators with burning branches, allowing him night operations and the ability to cook and create even more complex items requiring heat. They were able to hunt mammoths with their better weapons and, as they spread into the cooler regions of earth with fire, they began to travel in bands and often lived in caves and other forms of natural shelters. During the ice age of their period, the ocean levels dropped exposing the continental shelves. Homo erectus spread from the area of southeast Africa throughout Europe, Asia, and the Indonesian Islands that were not surrounded by water at the time. Mankind had begun living in groups, larger than the family, tamed fire and lived in sheltered areas.
Hominids have lived with and around fire for at least 500,000 years. They depended upon it. After 500,000 years of exposure to "second hand" smoke, hominids have evolved, not only a resistance to any possible damage, but a dependence upon it to kill airborne bacteria and viruses. The hominids are not susceptible to the small amounts of poison and highly destructive molecules in smoke, but volitant microbes succumb easily. Smoke has protected man from the spread of disease for many years. Now that modern man has curtailed the existence of "second hand" smoke in public places, the respiratory disease rate has grown as never before in history. Our skyscrapers become harbors of volitant microbes and cities are full of "sick buildings".
By 200,000 B.C., Homo erectus was extinct. Once again the type of hominid that had evolved even more intelligence and strength were left. The first fossil evidence was found in a German valley called the "Neanderthal". "Neanderthal Man" or Homo neanderthalensis was so closely like modern man that scientists have placed him in the same species. He is now considered Homo sapiens neanderthalensis because it is thought that interbreeding occurred. I do not feel that the ability to interbreed should be used to define species. There are far too many different species in the animal world that can interbreed and produce fertile young. These F1 offspring often develop genetic incompatibility problems which shorten their life spans, rather than providing hybrid vigor. When animals exhibit the systemic structural differences that neanderthalensis shows in comparison to Homo sapiens sapiens, they should be placed in their own species. Not as simply a color deviation, these vast differences are exhibited between neanderthalensis, the sub-Saharan Negroid, and the rest of the Homo sapiens as a body. I feel there is genetic evidence for three distinct species."

http://compuball.com/Inquisition/homo.htm

LOL HOMO.HTM

Sorry, I had to do it.

3 1/2 hours of Dream Theater in concert tonight!!

my condolences

3 1/2 hours of Dream Theater in concert tonight!!

So I heard they played Voices...I envy you.

3 1/2 hours of Dream Theater in concert tonight!!

i've seen them 4 times now. they really are fucking great live. did they play "the spirit carries on"? that one is pure awesome drizzled in awesome sauce