wonder which scientist is going to resurrect the Neanderthal race and doom us all seriously we have the technology
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Replying to @eigenrobot
would they be human enough that a majority of people would feel shame of putting them in zoos or have we not progressed enough as a species? tl:dr how would we treat our kin?
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Replying to @granderojo
>would they be human enough . . . only one way to find out!
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Replying to @eigenrobot
to answer your question denisovans terrify me more. they likely had a much greater sense of smell and live in high altitude areas so they could run longer distances than you/me
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Replying to @granderojo @eigenrobot
can I just say I love the "H. sapiens member worried about being displaced from their ecological niche as persistence hunter" feel about this tweet
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Replying to @TheMagnap @eigenrobot
there's a lot of evidence that we displaced them simply because we fucked a lot more, not because we were better fighters
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Replying to @granderojo @eigenrobot
I was referring to the "can run longer distances", but huh, cool. did we just fuck each other or also them (like the neanderthals?)
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Replying to @TheMagnap @eigenrobot
our penises are larger and plunger shaped unlike a lot of other primates seems to suggest there was a lot more sexual competition in our early ancestry instead of male infighting like gorillas. I could explain why but it might get a bit hairy. I've read a lot of ice age books
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hm but counter to that is our testicles are relatively small and sperm less virgorous/numerous suggest less gamete competition iirc?
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Replying to @eigenrobot @TheMagnap
it's all about tradeoffs. more sperm means proportionally large gamete, at least from what I've read, and that comes with complications since females are the limiting factor in population growth I'm sure there are factors due to that that we're are cognizant of.
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