After all, whether a Cro-Magnon or a Myhrvold, no bone collector wants to get skinned.

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The earliest fish hooks were probably carved out of wood more than 30, 000 years ago by Cro-Magnon man.

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Instead of entering full sentences into Google's search field, Pell points out, we've been conditioned to use Cro-Magnon collections of disconnected words.

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But during the alignment this summer, they will pass within 34.7 million miles (55.8 million kilometers), thought to be the closest encounter since Cro-Magnon man ruled the Earth.

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Anthropologists now believe Homo sapiens succeeded, unlike other members of the genus Homo, Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon for example, because our brains had a greater capacity for speech and language.

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It's not too far a stretch to imagine some Cro-Magnon connoisseur hoarding the same dinosaur bones Microsoft's Nathan Myhrvold keeps today in his giant warehouse in Redmond, Wash. (see " The Intense Dilettante").

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This dynamic, coupled with the increasing sophistication and specialization of the CRO ecosystem, has enabled the creation of single-asset deals with defined liquidity paths via structured buyouts.

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Capital planning does enjoy high-level attention with responsibility roughly divided between the CRO and the CFO, or the demand side of capital and the supply side, according to the report.

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To hear more on this topic, join the debate at the CRO Summits in Paris (Oct 29) and in Chicago (Nov 3-4).

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