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Post by Hardcastle on Jul 20, 2023 8:23:51 GMT
Wonder if there is any major difference between the Homo Sapiens of the different continent. As in pre-agriculutural European vs. African vs. Asian. That's a really interesting topic. One which I believe is kind of avoided by mainstream academia who promote the idea racial differences are superficial adaptations to climate for politically correct reasons. Instead it seems to me the differences between paleolithic hunter gatherers were relatively minor from continent to continent, comparable perhaps to the variation in leopards across their range. I believe all the hunter gatherer homo-sapiens from 300 000 ybp to about 35 000 years ago were pretty similar regardless of if they lived in Zimbabwe or Denmark or China or Tasmania or Algeria or France or Ukraine or Malaysia or etc etc. They were dark skinned, mostly diminutive, with a prognathic facial profile and large teeth, a wide nose with large nostrils, a strong brow ridge, robust bones, etc etc. They were, for lack of a better term, black people (possibly even Australoid, yes even in Africa - though possibly "capoid", the negroid type may have emerged more recently). And they were like this EVEN after admixture with neanderthals and denisovans. Perhaps the F1 hybrid with neanderthals would have been lighter in skin tone, but as their descendants absorbed back into the homo sapien population they returned back to being black people. The variation and diversity in homo sapien phenotype seems to have emerged very very recently and not in response to climate, but rather in response to dramatic lifestyle changes which emerged first with the domestication of dogs, and then with the domestication of other animals and crops. These catalysts made life VERY different for the peoples who experienced them, and then they adapted to their new lifestyle and changed in appearance. Not unlike the domestic dog varieties did. Those who were isolated from these catalysts, stayed the same, and that is why we still have aborigines in Australia and Negritos in the interior jungles of the malayan peninsula and the andaman islands and the bushmen in the deserts of the kalahari and etc. All the other races represent a lifestyle change which spurred the emergence of a new human phenotype, most of these occurred in the last 9000 years, some like Germanic white people and Han Chinese occurred as recently as 6000 years ago, which is evidenced by the archaeological record. Han chinese people have very distinctive shovel shaped incisors and uniquely shallow skulls which start appearing on the fossil record only around 6000 years ago in northern china, and then spread down into south east asia more recently (closer to 3000). Prior to that, china and south east asia has skulls on the archaeological record which are similar to those of Papuans. The book I am working on tries to make this point, as delicately as possible. It's actually "woke" with its implications because it shows that the civilised people really need not take any pride in being civilised and the uncivilised need not be ashamed. Its just incidental good fortune and it some ways it actually diminished the physical form of humans to be subjected to these lifestyle changes. There was also no notable increase in brainpower or anything like that. Basically it was luck, and it came at a price. |
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Post by Hardcastle on Jul 20, 2023 8:27:29 GMT
We’ve also really fucked up the ecosystem and caused the extinction of a bunch of species. Every invasive species does. As they migrate around the globe and land bridges form or formerly impassable deserts turn green etc and animals move around, they move into areas where the local flora and fauna are not used to them, and then there is a messy battle for the various niches in the various trophic levels. The more advanced species survive and typically eradicate a suite of local animals. Then the surviving animals rebuild and a new ecosystem forms. Humans simply continued this tradition. I think the biggest problem is they combat animals from rebuilding new full ecosystems with misplaced ideas about the importance of "preserving" the "native" ecosystem, even long after it is totally destroyed and can't be recovered. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2023 12:38:50 GMT
We’ve also really fucked up the ecosystem and caused the extinction of a bunch of species. Every invasive species does. As they migrate around the globe and land bridges form or formerly impassable deserts turn green etc and animals move around, they move into areas where the local flora and fauna are not used to them, and then there is a messy battle for the various niches in the various trophic levels. The more advanced species survive and typically eradicate a suite of local animals. Then the surviving animals rebuild and a new ecosystem forms. Humans simply continued this tradition. I think the biggest problem is they combat animals from rebuilding new full ecosystems with misplaced ideas about the importance of "preserving" the "native" ecosystem, even long after it is totally destroyed and can't be recovered. No other species is destructive to this extent though. The closest examples I can think of are common carp mucking up ponds and elephants toppling over trees. However, since we are sentient beings, we can fix our problems. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2023 12:44:02 GMT
We’ve also really fucked up the ecosystem and caused the extinction of a bunch of species. Every invasive species does. As they migrate around the globe and land bridges form or formerly impassable deserts turn green etc and animals move around, they move into areas where the local flora and fauna are not used to them, and then there is a messy battle for the various niches in the various trophic levels. The more advanced species survive and typically eradicate a suite of local animals. Then the surviving animals rebuild and a new ecosystem forms. Humans simply continued this tradition. I think the biggest problem is they combat animals from rebuilding new full ecosystems with misplaced ideas about the importance of "preserving" the "native" ecosystem, even long after it is totally destroyed and can't be recovered. Land bridges is an interesting point. For example, you have the Bering land bridge and the GABI. Marsupials (sparassodonts), sebecids, and terror birds were outcompeted by placental mammals (specifically carnivorans). Allosaurs (and carnosaurs as a whole) were outcompeted by tyrannosaurs. The Sahara used to be green IIRC. Australia is a perfect example. Just let the red Fox/dingo replace the thylacine, the situation can’t be salvaged. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2023 12:46:39 GMT
Even among herbivores, you have hadrosaurs outcompeting iguanodontians and other stem-ornithopods and titanosaurs outcompeting essentially all other sauropods.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2023 10:56:36 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2023 11:17:08 GMT
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Post by Hardcastle on Jul 28, 2023 11:18:41 GMT
Why is he rodding up? Dirty prick. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2023 11:19:00 GMT
It's crazy just how human-like bonobos are.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2023 11:19:32 GMT
Why is he rodding up? Dirty prick. That's the first thing you noticed? (not surprised)... jk. |
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Post by Hardcastle on Jul 28, 2023 11:20:00 GMT
Absolutely, I am appalled and outraged.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2023 11:20:36 GMT
Absolutely, I am appalled and outraged. Play it off Hardcastle, play it off... |
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Post by Hardcastle on Jul 28, 2023 11:21:54 GMT
If I was into big juicy cocks that would not cut the mustard. I imagine gay dudes would be especially annoyed by that thing's inadequate boner.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2023 11:29:41 GMT
What would be a good match-up for a Bonobo? Maybe a certain a dog breed, maybe a wild cat - what?
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Post by Hardcastle on Jul 28, 2023 11:41:13 GMT
I think we should just respect that they are a peaceful perverted wusses and not put them in matchups. We have the violent evil chimp for that. I also think we should leave golden retrievers out of matchups.
(although as I say that I remember the videos of goldens kicking ass, especially that chilling video of a golden eating a rival dog while its asian girl owner tries in vain to stop it).
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