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Today is the 2nd day of the 9th week, the 25th day of the 2nd month, the 56th day of 2019 [with only 302 shopping days until Christmas], and: 
  • Let's All Eat Right Day
  • Museum Advocacy Day
  • National Chocolate-Covered Peanuts Day
  • National Clam Chowder Day
  • National Cupcake Day (Canada)
  • Pistol Patent Day -- Samuel Colt was granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver 183 years ago.
  • Quiet Day
ON THIS DAY IN ...

1751 - first performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1 cent)

1791 - 1st Bank of US chartered

1836 - Samuel Colt patents first multi-shot revolving-cylinder revolver, enabling the firearm to be fired multiple times without reloading

1837 - first US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport

1862 - Under the Legal Tender Act 1862, Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving and Printing to print newly issued US paper currency, the United States Notes

1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull – human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.

1913 - The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes, was declared in effect.

1919 – Oregon places a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.

1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a broadcast license for television from the Federal Radio Commission.

1932 – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.

1933 – The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be designed from the start of construction as an aircraft carrier.

1933 - Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts on goal line)

1942 - Prime Minister Mackenzie King announces in the House of Commons that, under Order in Council PC 1486, all Japanese Canadians living within a hundred miles of the Pacific coast will be forcibly removed inland to safeguard the defences of the Pacific Coast of Canada. The following day, February 26, the Government starts evacuating 21,000 Japanese Canadians from coastal regions of British Columbia to interior work camps; under the War Measures Act.

1950 – “Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon & Woody Allen

1957 - Buddy Holly & Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"

1963 - Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me"

1969 - Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars

1979 - Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched

1982 - Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs

1982 - Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph)

 

Quote of the day:

The relationship between modern humans and other, now extinct, archaic hominin groups has been a subject of controversy since the 1970s. Two competing hypotheses were originally proposed: the multiregional model posited that modern humans evolved in parallel throughout Africa and Eurasia from different archaic groups while exchanging migrants, whereas the out-of-Africa model proposed that all present-day humans had a recent origin in the African continent, from which they expanded across the world. However, over the past 30 years, these two hypotheses were increasingly seen as an over-simplification.”

~ A 2015 review paper on archaic human introgression by Fernando Racimo and coworkers

 

The fact that homo sapiens is the only mammal without any surviving cousin species fascinates me.   There has been a suspicion that homo sapiens simply slaughtered their cousins or outcompeted them for limited resources, driving them into extinction.   Recent studies of DNA extractions of Neanderthal and Denisovan remains seems to support a theory of assimilation as trace genomes can be found in the modern population, but that is still being hotly debated in anthropological circles.   Current theories still seem to point to Africa as being the cradle of humanity, but the record is a little muddy when it comes to the migration out of that continent as it appears some of the migrants double backed and settled there  And then there is the mysterious bottleneck in evolution where the human race was almost wiped out – one theory blames the Toba super-volcano eruption of about 75,000 years ago and the resulting nuclear winter for the lack of genetic variations.  On the other hand, one theory traces all of humans back to a mitochondrial Eve, a homo erectus who lived about 200,000 years ago.   Both theories attempt to explain the lack of diversity in human specification, and both have intrinsic flaws.





 

But at what point during evolution did the soul evolve? 
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