Comments for The Dusty Globe http://dustyglobe.wordpress.com Writings on Geography, Travel and the Great American Past Times Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:57:34 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Tierra del Fuego by Incredibleness http://dustyglobe.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/tierra-del-fuego/#comment-14 Incredibleness Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:57:34 +0000 http://dustyglobe.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/tierra-del-fuego/#comment-14 Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation :) Anyway ... nice blog to visit. cheers, Incredibleness!! Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation :) Anyway … nice blog to visit.

cheers, Incredibleness!!

]]> Comment on Tierra del Fuego by Joel J. Barlow http://dustyglobe.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/tierra-del-fuego/#comment-7 Joel J. Barlow Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:29:56 +0000 http://dustyglobe.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/tierra-del-fuego/#comment-7 This is where Darwin's ideas about evolution began - with remarkable people of remarkable tribes now extinct. Although they seemed primitive then, it is clear that that should be rethought now. They were well adapted, clever in many ways, and responding to changing circumstance (especially the advent of horse-riding, just to the north of their area!); we as humans are less for what we failed to retain of their linguistic capacity, surely extremely different from all (or almost all) of what is used today. This is where Darwin’s ideas about evolution began – with remarkable people of remarkable tribes now extinct. Although they seemed primitive then, it is clear that that should be rethought now. They were well adapted, clever in many ways, and responding to changing circumstance (especially the advent of horse-riding, just to the north of their area!); we as humans are less for what we failed to retain of their linguistic capacity, surely extremely different from all (or almost all) of what is used today.

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