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Why we beat the Neanderthals
Homo sapiens may have triumphed over 27 other human species because of a simple phenomenon: childhood
There's a misconception among a lot of us Homo sapiens that we and our direct ancestors are the only humans ever to have walked the planet. It turns out that the emergence of our kind isn't nearly that simple. The whole story of human evolution is messy, and the more we look into the matter, the messier it becomes.
Paleoanthropologists have discovered as many as 27 different human species (the experts tend to debate where to draw the line between groups). These hominids diverged after our lineage split from a common ancestor we shared with chimpanzees seven million years ago, give or take a few hundred millennia.
Many of these species crossed paths, competed and mated. Populations ebbed and flowed in tight little tribes, at first on the expanding savannahs of Africa, later throughout Europe, Asia and all the way to Indonesia. Just 100,000 years ago, there were several human species sharing the planet, possibly more: Neanderthals in Europe and West Asia, the mysterious Denisovan people of Siberia, the recently discovered Red Deer Cave people living in southern China, Homo floresiensis (the Hobbits of Indonesia), and other yet unknown descendants of Homo erectus.
And, of course, there was our kind.
If there once were so many other human species wandering the planet, why are we alone still standing? After all, couldn't another version or two have survived and coexisted with us on a world as large as ours?
More than once, one variety may have done in another either by murdering its rivals outright or out-competing them for limited resources. But the answer isn't as simple or dramatic as a war of extermination with one species turning on the other in some prehistoric version of Planet of the Apes. The reason we are still here to ruminate on why we are still here is because, of all those other human species, only we evolved a long childhood.
Over the course of the past 1.5 million years, the forces of evolution inserted an extra six years between infancy and pre-adolescence -- a childhood -- into the life of our species. And that changed everything.
Why should adding a childhood help us escape extinction's pitiless scythe? Looked at logically, it shouldn't. All it would seem to do is lengthen the time between birth and mating, which would slow down the clamoring business of the species' own continuance. But there was one game-changing side effect of a long childhood. Those six years of life between ages one and seven are the time when we lay the groundwork for the people we grow up to become. Without childhood you and I would never have the opportunity to step away from the dictates of our genes and develop the talents, quirks and foibles that make us all the devastatingly charming, adaptable and distinctive individuals we are.
Childhood came into existence as the result of a peculiar evolutionary phenomenon known generally as neoteny. The term comes from two Greek words, neos meaning "new" (in the sense of "juvenile") and teinein meaning to "extend."
More than a million years ago, our direct ancestors found themselves in a real evolutionary pickle. On the one hand, their brains were growing larger than those of their rain forest cousins, and on the other, they had taken to walking upright because they spent most of their time in Africa's expanding savannas. Both features would seem to have substantially increased the likelihood of their survival, and they did, except for one problem: Standing upright favours the evolution of narrow hips and therefore narrows the birth canal. And that made bringing larger-headed infants to full term before birth increasingly difficult.
If we were born as physically mature as, say, an infant gorilla, our mothers would be forced to carry us for 20 months! But if they did carry us that long, our larger heads wouldn't make it through the birth canal. We would be, literally, unbearable. The solution: Our forerunners, as their brains expanded, began to arrive in the world sooner, essentially as fetuses, far less developed than other newborn primates, and considerably more helpless.
In the 20th century, a handful of scientists and evolutionary thinkers observed that infant apes bore a striking resemblance to adult humans, especially when it came to the shapes of their faces and heads. Naturally this raised a few questions: Was this simply a coincidence? Why would we resemble baby apes? And did this have anything to do with our own evolution?
Louis Bolk, a professor of anatomy in Amsterdam, became somewhat obsessed with those questions. Between 1915 and 1929, he penned six detailed scientific papers and one pamphlet on the subject. In them, he argued that a surprisingly high number of human physical traits "have all one feature in common, they are fetal conditions [seen in apes] that have become permanent."
Bolk enumerated 25 specific fetal or juvenile features that disappear entirely in apes as they grow to adulthood but persist in humans. Flatter faces and high foreheads, for example, and a lack of body hair. The shape of our ears, the absence of large brow ridges over our eyes, a skull that sits facing forward on our necks, a straight rather than thumblike big toe, and the large size of our heads compared with the rest of our bodies. You can find every one of these traits in fetal, infant, or toddling apes and modern human adults.
In the nasty and brutish prehistoric world our ancestors inhabited, arriving prematurely could have been a very bad thing. But to see the advantages of being born helpless and fetal, all you have to do is watch a two-year-old. Human children are the most voracious learners planet Earth has ever seen, and they are that way because their brains are still rapidly developing after birth. Neoteny, and the childhood it spawned, not only extended the time during which we grow up but ensured that we spent it developing not inside the safety of the womb but outside in the wide, convoluted and unpredictable world.
The same neuronal networks that in other animals are largely set before or shortly after birth remain open and flexible in us. Other primates also exhibit "sensitive periods" for learning as their brains develop, but they pass quickly, and their brain circuitry is mostly established by their first birthday, leaving them far less touched by the experiences of their youth.
We are different. During those six critical years, our brains furiously wire and rewire themselves, capturing experience, encoding and applying it to the needs of our particular life. Our extended childhood essentially enables our brains to better match our experience and environment. It is the foundation of the thing we call our personalities, the attributes that make you you and me me. Without it, you would be far more similar to everyone else, far less quirky and creative and less, well . . . you. Our childhood also helps explain how chimpanzees, remarkable as they are, can have 99 percent of our DNA but nothing like the same level of diversity, complexity or inventiveness.
Walter is the author of Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived
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Kuester started Stuckey, Daye and Wilcox against Utah.
Kuester brushed off talk of a possible mutiny after Friday's shootaround, and Daye -- in his second season in the league -- insisted after Saturday's game his relationship with the coach is fine.
"I have no problems with Coach -- he plays me a lot," Daye said. "I should have been on time, and I got punished. It was embarrassing for me to do that. There's no excuse for a second-year player to miss a bus because of a miscommunication. I don't hold any grudge for sitting out last night. I apologized to Coach and told him it was the right decision."
Kuester said before the game he was ready to move on, and the Pistons won for the first time without Hamilton, Prince and Wallace since April 8, 2002. Detroit also put up its highest point total of the season, and beat Utah for the first time in 12 meetings.
Ben Gordon scored 17 points for the Pistons, and Charlie Villanueva added 16. Rookie Greg Monroe contributed 12 points and 16 rebounds, and Bynum scored 11 in 22:41 of action -- an easy night's work compared to Friday.
The Jazz, a picture of stability for so many years, are going through their own transition following the Feb. 10 resignation of longtime coach Jerry Sloan. Utah also traded star point guard Deron Williams to New Jersey on Wednesday.
Devin Harris and Derrick Favors, both acquired in that trade, combined for 27 points against Detroit. Harris finished with 17 points and 12 assists in his first start in a Utah uniform.
Andrei Kirilenko scored 21 points and Jefferson added 20 for the Jazz, who shot 59.5 percent from the field.
The Jazz led 95-88 in the fourth quarter before Detroit went on a 12-0 run that included five points each by Daye and Gordon.
"Defensively we are struggling out there in spurts," said Tyrone Corbin, Utah's interim coach. "We are just looking for something good to happen so that we can start feeling good about ourselves."
Game notes
All five Utah starters were in double figures. ... The Pistons led by as many as 11 in the first half and were ahead 58-53 at halftime. ... Detroit owner Karen Davidson said she had no comment on the status of the team's possible sale.
Team Stat Comparison
|44-74 (.595)
|43-86 (.500)
|5-13 (.385)
|11-17 (.647)
|23-34 (.676)
|23-31 (.742)
|Rebounds (Offensive-Total)
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|R. Stuckey 28
|P. Millsap 11
|G. Monroe 16
|D. Harris 12
|R. Stuckey 8
|E. Watson 1
|W. Bynum 4
|P. Millsap 3
|G. Monroe 1
|Team rosters: Utah | Detroit
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Research Notes
The Jazz lose despite shooting 59.5 pct from the field, the highest FG pct by a losing team this season. The last team to shoot that well and still lose: The Clippers, on Jan. 16, 2010, shot 59.7 pct in a loss to the Cavaliers.
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Mmm.. Love GemstonesFor about 15 years now i have collected crystals and gemstones. Most of the crystals i have found have been in Tasmania in the mountains. Id walk along and see a shiny object, Most of the time its some sort of crystal. Rose, Smokey and clear crystals i have...
marcoise 31-35, M 2 Responses 1 Feb 15, 2010
Trying to Collect Them All!For about two years now, I have avidly started to collect gemstones and rings. I usuallly am able to purchase my collectibles through Ebay;either by winning auction,or just buying the item form one of the their stores they have on Ebay.At times I have purchased items...
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Rings And Things!I have been collecting gemstone rings since 8th grade. My grandfather got me a garnet ring and I have loved rings ever since. Well, all jewelry really, but I still have a weakness for rings. One of my favorites is an alexandrite ring I ...
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SapphiresI love sapphires and collect them in jewelry, as art, raw and polished. I love sapphires and have them throughout my house.
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I'm New To This Hobby!Hi, everyone! I've always had a passion for gemstones and unique rocks and minerals, but this is the first year I've really gotten serious about a gemstone collection. I'm buying one gemstone per year - most of the ones I really like are the oddball ones...
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I have bought quite a few sapphires from afriend who use to mine them in central Queensland. Some years ago Australia supplied around 70% of the worlds sapphires. The majority were sold to Thailand and sold as Thai stones after heat treating to improve the colour. Sri Lanka is known for the better blue colours...
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I love comic books. I have about 1350 or so comics inside of my personal collection and probably about 500 or so others that I keep around in order to use for trading.I have mostly...
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I now have a pretty Peacock notebook in my (oddly large) notebook collection. ._. One positive thing about collecting notebooks, I always have paper to write stuff down on.
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I am a bit of a hoarder lol I love collecting little trinkets and pecculiar items. I own allsorts of random crap! My favorite things to collect are Zippo's!
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Ever growing large collection lol
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I collect different types of glasses (whine glasses, champagne, etc), notebooks (I recently got a Spiderman, Donatello-Tmnt, and Rapheal-Tmnt notebook), Rosaries, and cologne...
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Collect Hot Wheels Cars...................
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What kind of rock is this?
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We spent the night out at Stanage Edge in Derbtshire last night to do
a bit of LP (more of that to come after I've had some sleep!) but the
night culminated in getting a shot as the ISS passed over at 3.13 this
morning. It was visible for just under 6 minutes as it crossed the sky
at 17,500 mph!
Unbelievably the sky was actually starting to get light as dawn was about to break (us light painters don't get much time out at this time of year!) so the trail is not quite as bright as I'd have liked as balancing the exposures of this is very tricky (and you only get one go!)
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Well done. A super shot of it.
What a pearler of a shot mate. Looking forward to the LP action mate.... I'm missing that light painting thing were meant to do at the minute... Not to far from me this place, maybe hit it up for a collab one evening when theres a bit more dark time and a full moon?
yes deffinately! This is about 2 mins drive from my brothers house, can't believe I've not done it before now. The moonlight wasn't too great last night even though it was clear but was fun to get back to painting the landscape manually
again, it seems so long since I did that instead of just relying on the moon!
Excellent shot of it! It's a nightmare isn't it the late nights and very early mornings! I was up that mountain last night at 10.00 and had to wait until nearly 11 for it to go dark enough to really have a good play! Shame you 2 live down South, it'd be amazing to do a joint effort some time.
WOW great catch
That's pretty amazing. Really makes me think. Well done.
Wonderful~ like the blue tones! Super!
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Redemption in Kosovo
"The signs of collusion between the criminal class and the highest political and institutional office holders are too numerous and too serious to be ignored," concluded the report submitted to the Council of Europe in December, 2010. The name of Hashim Thaci, then prime minister of Kosovo and former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), was mentioned 27 times in 27 pages.
Hashim Thaci is still prime minister of Kosovo. Indeed, he has just been re-elected to the job, although the turnout was a feeble 42 percent. The European Union and NATO, the two organisations that helped the Kosovars free themselves from Serbian rule, seem quite happy about his victory – and even the Serbian government urged the Serbian minority who still live there to vote in Kosovo's election. So redemption is possible, after all.
Thaci might have turned out to be a mild-mannered accountant if he had been born in a different era, but he came to adulthood just as the independence struggle of the Albanian-speaking majority in Kosovo was coming to the boil. He joined the KLA, and after several rivals suffered unfortunate accidents he emerged as the undisputed leader.
Revolutionary movements need money, especially if they include an armed wing, and since they have no legal sources of income, they must resort to crime. They rob banks; they blackmail people and kidnap them for ransom; they smuggle stuff, including drugs. Whether their cause is good or bad, they have almost all done it: the Taliban, the Irish Republican Army, Boko Haram, ETA, FARC and the KLA. Hashim Thaci certainly did it all. In fact, you could argue that he overdid it. After NATO's 78-day bombing campaign against Serbia in 1999 forced Slobodan Milosevic's government to evacuate all the Serbian troops from Kosovo and a United Nations administration backed by NATO peacekeeping troops took over, the time for fighting – and illicit fund-raising methods – was over. But Thaci just kept going.
The KLA was renamed the Kosovo Protection Corps, and used intimidation and occasional assassinations to gain control of almost all the municipal governments in the country. A recent report on corruption in Kosovo by BND, the German intelligence service, noted that "The key players (including...Thaci) are intimately involved in inter-linkages between politics, business, and organized crime structures in Kosovo."
The Council of Europe report of 2010 says bluntly: "In confidential reports spanning more than a decade, agencies dedicated to combatting drug smuggling in at least five countries have named Hashim Thaci... as having exerted violent control over the trade in heroin and other narcotics. Thaci and [other former KLA members] are consistently named as 'key players' in intelligence reports on Kosovo's mafia-like structures of organized crime."
That report, commissioned after the chief prosecutor for war crimes at the Hague, Carla Del Ponte, said she had been prevented from investigating senior KLA officials, also contained details about the KLA's fund-raising methods just after the fighting ended in 2000. The most shocking was the allegation that some Serbian prisoners held by Thaci's faction of the KLA were killed in order to harvest their organs for sale abroad.
The report found that Thaci's people held Serb captives in six detention facilities in Albania, and that a "handful" were transferred to Tirana, where they were killed for their kidneys. "As and when the transplant surgeons were confirmed to be in position and ready to operate, the captives were brought out of the 'safe house' individually, summarily executed by a KLA gunman, and their corpses transported swiftly to the operating clinic."
The human rights rapporteur who wrote the Council of Europe report, the Swiss lawyer Dick Marty, subsequently admitted that he had no evidence directly linking Thaci with the organ trafficking, but if you're the boss, you have to accept at least a share of the blame. So why is this suspected war criminal and big-time crime boss being welcomed as Kosovo's legitimate leader by all the European countries, including even Serbia?
Two obvious reasons are that he won the election, and that he doesn't actually face any outstanding criminal charges. But the deeper reason is that Serbia wants to join the European Union.
The European Union wants it too: it's important to bring the Serbs into the club and not leave them feeling bruised and resentful about the Balkan wars of the 1990s, even if they were largely responsible for them. However, Serbia cannot join the EU until it accepts that the breakaway province of Kosovo is gone forever and recognizes its leader as legitimate. The EU does not accept applicants with unresolved border disputes. (Ukraine please note.)
And this also means, by the way, that the EU has to accept Kosovo as a legitimate candidate for membership even under its current leader. Both the EU and Serbia would certainly prefer the prime minister of Kosovo to be somebody a bit more presentable, but the Kosovars keep electing Hashim Thaci, albeit with a small and dwindling turnout of voters. And maybe he really has changed.
Sometimes you just have to put the past behind you, and maybe even some of the present too.
Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles on world affairs are published in 45 countries.
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Great Bend's John Edmonds will again be Representative of the state's 112th district, after pulling in 71 percent of the votes Tuesday night in Barton County. Unofficial final totals from the Barton County Clerk's Office showed the Republican with 6,528 votes. Democratic challenger Steve Muehleisen received 2,505 votes, or 27 percent. There were also 132 write-in votes. At the end of October, Great Bend Republican Frank McKinney announced he was running as a write-in candidate.
The Tuesday's general election is in the books. The polls closed at 7 p.m. and the Barton County Clerk's office started continually updating posted results throughout the evening.
Six years ago, Karole Erikson and husband Jay Miller bought digital cameras and began photographing the landscape and inhabitants of both the Cheyenne Bottoms and their own backyard. For Miller, it was a chance to rekindle and interest born 30 years ago while studying art and photography at Barton Community College. For Erikson, it was a chance to delve into a creative realm far from her everyday work as a music teacher at BCC. On Sunday, Nov. 4, the Deines Center in Russell featured photography by each, spotlighting the talent of Kansans from Central Kansas in the "Local Color" exhibit ...
Sure, the ballot included Democratic President Barrack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. But, it also included a duckling, a wimpy kid and a hungry caterpillar.
Chili lovers had the opportunity to try 19 different chili recipes Saturday, Nov. 3 at the Explore Great Bend Chili Cook Off, sponsored by Sunflower Diversified Services. Cook off coordinator Sarah Krom said 140 tasters bracelets were sold, and a $663 donation will be made to the Community Food Bank with the proceeds.
Each week we'll take a step back into the history of Great Bend through the eyes of reporters past. We'll reacquaint you with what went into creating the Great Bend of today, and do our best to update you on what "the rest of the story" turned out to be.
When Great Bend City Council members first started discussing their vision of a refurbished Convention Center, they planned on spending about $1 million, and having the facility remodeled and up and running again by next August.
HUDSON - Living it up with the lowly "poor man's vegetable," the city of Hudson celebrated the cruciferous white, purple turnip with older and young alike at the 4th annual Turnip Festival . Although the Kansas earth did not yield much fruit this year, turnips runneth over in the planted field with the addition of a little water.
On Nov. 13-15, county officials will meet at the Kansas Association of Counties Annual Conference in Topeka. It's a time for local leaders to work with the KAC in developing its 2013 legislative platform, said Barton County Commissioner. Don Cates Monday morning.
Brad Smalley and Ana Klecker, historical reenactors from the Longbranch Saloon museum in Dodge City, deputized several young lawpersons at high noon Saturday, Nov. 3 at P and S Security in Great Bend. It was part of the Explore Great Bend chili cookoff taking place along Mainstreet and at the Westgate Shopping Center from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For $5, tasters purchased a bracelet which gave them a chance to sample 18 different chilis around town, and one people's choice vote. Contestants offered a wide variety of recipes featuring beef, chicken, turkey, pork and venison, red ...
Tuesday is the general election and Barton County Election Officer Donna Zimmerman has some last-minute reminders for residents heading to the polls.
From sunrise to sunset, Saturday and Sunday, youth hunters have their shot at bagging pheasants or quail before adult hunters take to the fields Nov. 10. It's the annual Kansas youth pheasant and quail hunting season, Nov. 3 and 4, for youth age 16 and under. Youth under the age of 16, accompanied by an adult mentor, can hunt for free all over the state. Brian Hanzlick, Barton County conservation officer, said while there were no organized youth hunts locally, the youth season offers a great opportunity for parents to pass on their love of hunting to their children ...
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Two Great Bend High School graduates now living in Chicago, Ill., can be seen next week on cable television's Travel Channel.
A young Don Campbell admires the beautiful, bright colors of a large stained-glass window as he helps his parents rescue the piece of history from the First Congregational Church in Great Bend in the early 1960s, only days before the church was set to be demolished. Little did he know then how significant his actions were, or how closely his path would be tied to the window's.
The Federal Highway Administration and the Kansas Department of Transportation recognize this as National Work Zone Awareness Week. As of Monday morning, it was being observed in Barton County as well after the County Commission approved a proclamation marking the occasion.
Road construction on U.S. 56 between Great Bend and Ellinwood is expected to last a couple months. During that span, more and more motorists are anticipated to use the parallel East Barton County Road as a detour.
After receiving official notification last week from the Governor's office, Greg Lewis (R-St. John) was sworn into the Kansas House of Representatives this morning to represent the 113th District. The oath of office was administered by Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Lewis will complete the term of Basil Dannebohm who resigned from office last month.
Three teenagers will have an opportunity to serve as interns this summer at the Great Bend Public Library, thanks to a grant from the Young Adult Library Services Association.
Three months after being diagnosed with colon cancer, Barton County Sheriff Brian Bellendir is joining efforts to bring awareness to the disease.
Two groups rasing money for toddler-appropriate playground equipment in Brit Spaugh Park hope to have the "Tot Spot" ordered by May 1, said Rachel Mawhirter from the Barton County Young Professionals.
ElderCare, Inc/Friendship Meals announced today its participation in the 2015 March for Meals – a nationwide community-by-community celebration of the local Meals on Wheels programs that keep seniors independent in their own homes. ElderCare's March for Meals events will include Community Champions Week, March 16-20. Throughout the 28 SW Kansas counties, 42 meal sites will recruit Community Champions to volunteer their time to deliver Meals On Wheels or serve lunch at the local meal center.
Credit Union of America's Great Bend office celebrated 40 years of serving members by giving back over the last two months to members, non-members and charitable organizations. The 40-day celebration resulted in $23,160 being given to individuals and matching contributions to five chosen charities.
Communities along the route for June Jaunt will feature popular art to draw visitors along the tour from Tribune to Ellinwood. It's part of this year's "heritage" theme.
HOISINGTON - Two injuries were reported Wednesday after a motorist in a Jeep pulled in front of a Peterbilt semitrailer at 12:35 p.m. at NE 10 Ave. and NE 100 Road, near Hoisington.
Each week we'll take a step back into the history of Great Bend through the eyes of reporters past. We'll reacquaint you with what went into creating the Great Bend of today, and do our best to update you on what "the rest of the story" turned out to be.
Barton County voters can now apply for advanced ballots for the April 7 city/school/hospital general election, said Donna Zimmerman, Barton county clerk and election officer.
This past Saturday, City Sanitarian Gregg Vannoster worked with First Assembly of God Church volunteers for a community service day cleanup of storm water drainage ditches around the community.
An internet video depicting two Great Bend High School students fighting in the lunch room has been featured on several websites over the weekend, prompting readers to contact the Great Bend Tribune with questions concerning the safety of students at the school.


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I'm using PostgreSQL's full-text search capability to implement a search feature on a client's site. I'm using the
ts_headline function to get the context that the search terms appear in, but the client is not happy with the selection of words displayed. In particular, the headline seems to consistently begin with the search term, whereas the client would like it to start a few words earlier.
Is there any way to either configure PostgreSQL to have this behavior, or modify the ts_headline call to get the desired results?
Edit: Apologies for not including some sample SQL in the first place.
ts_headline('english', "text", plainto_tsquery('"endpoints"'))
FROM "Page"
WHERE to_tsvector("text") @@ plainto_tsquery('"endpoints"')
ORDER BY ts_rank(to_tsvector("text"), plainto_tsquery('"endpoints"'))