![]() Men like to pair our two favorite bonding agents, but that’s not always possible because grilling…er, barbecue season doesn’t completely overlap with the NFL season. We like to get together to cheer our teams and express our contempt and ridicule for teams we dislike (the Eagles and Giants). For many men, the two most powerful bonding agents are sports and what we like to call “barbecue” even though what we’re doing is “grilling.” We derive a sense of belonging through our affiliation with the sports teams we like–to the extent that we wear team apparel which encases us like engorged sausages. ![]() We are driven to form and maintain at least a few lasting, positive and significant interpersonal relationships. Neanderthal man used tools: hammers, clubs and axes contemporary man uses tools: television remote controls, joy sticks and iPhones.Ĭultural anthropologists (and Barbara Streisand) have long posited that throughout evolutionary history, man has had an inherent need for belonging to a social group. Neanderthals scrawled their art on cave walls contemporary man expresses himself artistically on bridges, underpasses and walls. They spoke in guttural grunts, similar to today’s politicians. Neanderthals were hairy and brutish in appearance, very much like the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles. Men, it could be said, have not evolved much. What is most remarkable about this finding is how very similar Neanderthal man and contemporary man are. ![]() Archaeologists in Spain claim to have unearthed the original man cave.
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