We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?
  • WanderingThoughts@europe.pubEnglish
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    4 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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      4 months ago

      It’s always violence

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