You guys'll have to trust me on this one.
1. When teenage boys go on their "walkabouts," they know where evey oasis, every cliff is, without ever having been there. They remember important info passed down by the elders. All of it. Tell me that's not intelligence.
2. If heavy browridges and odd cranial appendages make one less intelligent than they'd be without them, then I'd assume us Alpines are less intelligent than you Nordics. We have shorter skulls, after all.
3. You can't judge intelligence by whether a people constantly contemplates the meaning of life, builds huge cities, or knows calculus. If I hunted for my food and never lived in one place, would that make me any less intelligent?
4. Aboriginal languages have
really complex grammar; four noun classes, multiple intonations for different parts of a sentence, six places of articulation (more than most), and such. I don't think
homo erectus could speak such complex tongues. (That is, as complex as many other, unrelated
human languages.)
So, yeah. You people need to understand that not everybody is just like you; people come in all sorts of varieties. Don't believe the stuff about sloping foreheads and such indicating dumbness. I fell for that too, once.
Oh, one more thing: stop with the Alpines-are-ugly bit, those who are saying such things.
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