E não é que aconteceu mesmo uma maça ter despertado Newton para a noção da gravidade.?Quanto aos Boskops, fiquei surpreendido com o artigo referenciado abaixo - nunca tinha ouvido falar desses "muito especiais" nossos antepassados, e em particular, das suas capacidades - mas, a Wikipédia serviu para qualificar a notícia (ver aqui):
- Mediterranean Sea filled in less than two years: study | Physorg.com: "The Mediterranean Sea was mostly filled in less than two years in a dramatic flood around 5.33 million years ago in which water poured in from the Atlantic, according to a study published Wednesday"
- Can Science Explain Religion? - The New York Review of Books
- What Happened to the HominidsWho Were Smarter Than Us? | Human Evolution | DISCOVER Magazine: "The Boskops had big eyes, child-like faces, and an average intelligence of around 150, making them geniuses among Homo sapiens."
- Isaac Newton's falling apple tale drops into the web | Science | The Guardian: "'After dinner, the weather being warm, we went into the garden and drank tea, under the shade of some apple trees,' wrote Stukeley, in the papers published in 1752 and previously available only to academics. 'He told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind. It was occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in contemplative mood. Why should that apple always descend perpendicularly to the ground, thought he to himself.'"
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