Comments on: Scientists Find the Oldest Known Sleeping Mats, Laced With Insect-Repelling Leaves http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/09/scientists-find-the-oldest-known-sleeping-mats-laced-with-insect-repelling-leaves/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Thu, 24 May 2012 06:56:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Obbop http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/09/scientists-find-the-oldest-known-sleeping-mats-laced-with-insect-repelling-leaves/comment-page-1/#comment-3533453 Obbop Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:36:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=33895#comment-3533453 "your casual racism didn’t go unnoticed." Your PC brainwashing/indoctrination is obvious. Such a shame. “your casual racism didn’t go unnoticed.”

Your PC brainwashing/indoctrination is obvious.

Such a shame.

]]> By: Geack http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/09/scientists-find-the-oldest-known-sleeping-mats-laced-with-insect-repelling-leaves/comment-page-1/#comment-3347134 Geack Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:19:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=33895#comment-3347134 @1. Social grooming doesn't prevent mosquito bites, and it can only lessen but not eliminate flea bites. Plus, humans have lived with fleas for most of our history (google comments about flea-sharing in elizabethan England) and we never really developed widespread social-grooming customs, so maybe it's just not in us. And finally, your casual racism didn't go unnoticed. @1. Social grooming doesn’t prevent mosquito bites, and it can only lessen but not eliminate flea bites. Plus, humans have lived with fleas for most of our history (google comments about flea-sharing in elizabethan England) and we never really developed widespread social-grooming customs, so maybe it’s just not in us. And finally, your casual racism didn’t go unnoticed.

]]> By: Foxinwinter http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/09/scientists-find-the-oldest-known-sleeping-mats-laced-with-insect-repelling-leaves/comment-page-1/#comment-3034197 Foxinwinter Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:59:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=33895#comment-3034197 How do they know it's a bed? How do they know it’s a bed?

]]> By: Anita http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/09/scientists-find-the-oldest-known-sleeping-mats-laced-with-insect-repelling-leaves/comment-page-1/#comment-2993551 Anita Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:02:32 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=33895#comment-2993551 Obbop: You misuse "fornicate." Obbop: You misuse “fornicate.”

]]> By: Obbop http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/09/scientists-find-the-oldest-known-sleeping-mats-laced-with-insect-repelling-leaves/comment-page-1/#comment-2936164 Obbop Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:51:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=33895#comment-2936164 Wouldn't it be more fun to engage in the social grooming many (all?) primates engage in to encourage group cohesion and bonding and as a possible precursor to coitus that was assuredly constantly needed to continue the species whose lives were short and with high death rates at an early age? Toss in the predation by carnivores and those early humans assuredly had to fornicate frequently akin to levels seen in the barrios of the USA. Wouldn’t it be more fun to engage in the social grooming many (all?) primates engage in to encourage group cohesion and bonding and as a possible precursor to coitus that was assuredly constantly needed to continue the species whose lives were short and with high death rates at an early age?

Toss in the predation by carnivores and those early humans assuredly had to fornicate frequently akin to levels seen in the barrios of the USA.

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