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Q: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Alistair Pike ? The discovery brings researchers one step closer to understanding how it is that humans developed art and language and religion — the types of symbolic and cultural expressions that have always been thought to elevate humans from other species  said archaeologist  Alistair Pike  of Britain’s University of Southampton  who was part of the research team.
“It’s almost the definition of being human ”  Pike  told The Washington Post. “It’s how we define ourselves as different from other animals and primates  having language and cultural expression. There’s been a lot of work trying to understand where in Homo sapiens’s lineage did we first become symbolic individuals?”
Perhaps   Pike  said   it  started with Neanderthals.
Still  Stringer stressed that there is still not definite proof of Neanderthals’ ability to make figurative art — of animals and people — because the animals the researchers found on the paintings in Spain have uncertain origins.  Pike  said  it  was not entirely clear whether humans may have stumbled upon the Neanderthal paintings and simply added to them with the vague animal drawings  or if they were a part of the original Neanderthal designs; the researchers have not yet dated them   he  said.
The discovery that they did not  in fact  need the help of modern humans puts Neanderthals and humans on a more level playing field   Pike  said  given that tens of thousands of years ago  modern humans weren’t all that sophisticated either. The end goal with this research  he said  is to understand how the brain became wired for symbolic expression — but that’s going to require a lot more cave discoveries.
“If we’re going to try to find out when we started thinking like humans  we’re going to have to go back further in time ”  Pike  said. “What we’re interested in is when the brain became modern  and that’s a really difficult thing to get at. You can see how big it was by looking at the size of the skull  but it’s really hard to know how it was wired inside. If the use of symbols and symbolic behavior can be used as a proxy for how the brain was wired  then we can understand how the brain evolved.”
The Neanderthals went extinct about 5 000 years after humans arrived in Europe. The suspected causes have ranged from climate change that affected available food to competition with modern humans. As research moves forward   Pike  said  it may be useful to keep in mind that perhaps humans and Neanderthals were not as different as we thought.
“There’s always been a sense that all this expression  this art  arrived with modern humans  and Neanderthals might have been copying them in the very late period of their existence ”  Pike  said. But wouldn’t it be interesting if it was in fact the other way around? Modern humans may have landed on the moon — but they started out in the same place as Neanderthals.”

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Q: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Bubba Wallace ? It was Petty who hired  Wallace  last October to drive  his  famous No. 43 stock car  making  him  the first black driver to race regularly at NASCARâs top level since Scott in 1971. In fact  Scott had been the only African-American to race regularly at NASCARâs top level.
When Almirola  then Pettyâs driver  was injured last season   Wallace  replaced  him  for four races  doing better in each race. Petty had hired  Wallace  before Almirola even jumped to Stewart-Haas Racing in the offseason  taking Danica Patrickâs spot.
Petty said he hired  Wallace  because of his vast potential  not his skin color. But diversity is important to NASCAR  which is trying to appeal to younger fans to fortify sagging TV ratings and live attendance. Essentially   Wallace  replaced Patrick  who wrecked Sunday in what she said would be her last NASCAR race  finishing 35th.
Patrick never finished in the top five in 191 top-series races  but  Wallace  can top that now. He received a good-luck call before the race from Hammerinâ Hank Aaron. The four-time Formula One champion  Lewis Hamilton  who is black  also tweeted his best wishes.
âLuckily I was sitting down when I was replying to him â  Wallace  said Sunday of Hamilton. âI think I was taking a golf cart ride out to an appearance and I replied back. Really cool and really special for Hank Aaron also to call right there before was really special  and just knowing that people are tuning in and hopefully noticing the new face and the new change that's coming to NASCAR and they get behind it and support it. Just exciting.â
Even before he finished third in a qualifying race Thursday   Wallace  was a popular person around Daytona.  He  then ran near the front all afternoon in a race that was splotched by three big wrecks.  Wallace  avoided them all and won a joust with Denny Hamlin to finish second.
The next race is Sunday at Atlanta  an event that is much less prestigious than Daytona. But NASCAR appears to have some traction. Dillon  27  is one of several emerging young drivers  but  Wallace  has a unusual background for a stock-car driver.  He  tweeted last year  âYouâre not going to stop hearing about `the black driverâ for years.â
On Sunday   he  said  âI'm really looking forward to Atlanta. Don't know what the hell we'll have there because it's all new for us. I know this will carry over to Atlanta and be good.â

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Q: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity P. Chidambaram ? Indian home minister retracts statement linking crime with migrant population
 Facing the heat  Chidambaram clarified his statement and said that he was withdrawing his entire comment.
 Chidambaram said that he was in fact pointing to the "behavior that is unacceptable."
 "Nevertheless  I think the best way to put an end to any controversy would be to withdraw the whole of my answer to the question  and I do so " Chidambaram said.
 As soon as Chidambaram blamed the migrant population for rising incidents of crime in Delhi  leaders from all the major political parties came down heavily on him.
 They blamed Chidambaram and the Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's government of not doing enough to control crime in Delhi.

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