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10/21/2007: "Modern humans were smart long before thought"

In one of the earliest hints of "modern" living, humans 164,000 years ago put on primitive makeup and hit the seashore for steaming mussels, new archaeological finds show.

Instead of undergoing a revolution into modern living about 40,000 to 70,000 years ago, as commonly thought, man may have become modern in stuttering fits and starts, or through a long slow march that began even earlier. At least that's the case being made in a study appearing in the journal Nature on Thursday.

[ Science is too heavily politicized to make sense of this. ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071018/ap_on_sc/early_seafood