The Shiva Hypothesis (fwd)

[Stefan Baums]

On 08-Mar-98 Vidyasankar Sundaresan wrote:
>
> neurostimulant. Can't think of any other scientific term using Indian
> words. (Wasn't there an Indology list discussion about this, a year or
> so ago?) Indian/Skt. terminology seems to have entered only chemistry.
> Physics and biology seem immune to it.
>
> From biology there are there are the names of the early hominids Ramapithecus
and Sivapithecus (-pithecus is from a Greek word meaning "ape"). The former was
first dug up in Northern India in the 1930s.