We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?
  • Zachariah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Looking around the world today, I’d place my bets it was due to more fucking and more violence.

    • WanderingThoughts@europe.pubEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Selection for juvenile traits – low aggression, openness to novelty and new people – likely made us more social, and produced our immature-looking skulls as a side-effect. Ironically, it may have been this sociability and low aggression that made modern humans so incredibly dangerous to these primitive Homo sapiens.

      So we partied the others to death?

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        It’s always violence

        more important is the fact that large tribes are better able to defend land – or take it.

        • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          In this case it sounds more like cats, infiltrating with cuteness instead of conquering with violence.