DNA studies of modern Europeans show that Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals fucked. A lot. The popular conception of early hominid Hobbesian war may have some truth to it, but the popular hewing to that narrative is bound up in 19th Century conceptions of racial struggle and fitness.
there have been some studies that other hominids (neanderthal and denisovians that lived in asia) lived 10-20k years ago. i find that so wild, at the 10k years ago estimate, we were only 4-5k years off from having a recorded history of them! wouldnt that have been fascinating to read? also the full gamut of human racial characteristics had developed by this point. it would have been truly interesting to travel and meet all these different species, let alone the fact that humans would be as varied as they are today
*ahem*
NO IT DOESN'T
Analyze the human condition without resorting to Darwinian heuristics challenge
EvolPsychos can't fathom the possibility of many traits/behaviors developing at once, all linked together.
Evolutionary psychology and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Yup, all hominids lived together in peace and harmony. No need to look into that or anything.
edit: Yes, most of EvoPsych is basically phrenology, but this one holds a bit more water. A stopped clock is right twice a day.
DNA studies of modern Europeans show that Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals fucked. A lot. The popular conception of early hominid Hobbesian war may have some truth to it, but the popular hewing to that narrative is bound up in 19th Century conceptions of racial struggle and fitness.
there have been some studies that other hominids (neanderthal and denisovians that lived in asia) lived 10-20k years ago. i find that so wild, at the 10k years ago estimate, we were only 4-5k years off from having a recorded history of them! wouldnt that have been fascinating to read? also the full gamut of human racial characteristics had developed by this point. it would have been truly interesting to travel and meet all these different species, let alone the fact that humans would be as varied as they are today
ugh
How strange that we had a hand in killing off most of the other hominids, yet wonder whether or not we're the only 'intelligent species' out there.
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