dawnofsapiens.bsky.social
Interested in everything human origins.
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Tickets to the Austin show purchased! Thanks for remembering us behind enemy lines 😂
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I see that diversity across time (Sima de los Huesos root Neanderthal and Denisova 5) but isn't it true that after ~105 kya most Neanderthals were closely related? Besides the Thorin pop. what other deep lineage has been found? If DNA can be obtained I could see the Krapina pop. being divergent.
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The Wood Age,it seems, is a lost world. It should be considered more often when reconstructing human origins.
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I read the article. The thing is, we don't need Colossal's permission to call them what they are or are not.
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There's something ironic about a geneticist using the morphological species concept to characterize these gray wolves as dire wolves because she knows genetically defining them as dire wolves is laughable.
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Researchers have been doing knock-in studies for years. But they had the awareness and humility to know they were only experimenting.
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Hold the line Dan! This was a much needed episode.
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How does the inferred chromosome 2 fusion play into this? At a proposed ~1 mya you would have thought populations that split before that would not be capable of mixing with our (and likely Neandersovan's) lineage. Unless the fusion was earlier or the fusion happened more than once. Very interesting.
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Dan, sometimes exploring the problem is enough. You discussing what we are living through via a historical lens would be very valuable.
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With the rise of AI are you considering bringing Ben to life?
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If Krapina Neandertals really died by 30, that would leave 5, maybe 10 yrs, for the children to know parents. The social and cultural implications would be massive, almost devastating. Was this all Neandertals? I still wonder if the age of the Krapina remains were biased by their cultural practices.
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It's fascinating that because this site is in North America a higher standard is held on the dating evidence. In almost any other context it would be widely accepted. Alas, there's always someone willing to die on an outdated hill.
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Currently.
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@mcuban.bsky.social do you honestly believe that legitimate AI won't just be used to maximize profits by firing workers and replacing them with AI? What motivation will companies (and even govs) have to employ humans when AI can do it just as well or better? Fiefdoms are the elite right's wet dream.
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Do you feel that Musk ingratiating himself with popular cultural figures (you, Chappelle, Rogan, Lex Fridman) was calculated to build legitimacy in preparation for a move like this? Or did he just need to feel wanted and everything that followed was happenstance? I ponder this quite a bit.
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Is it that contemporary? The Romans relied on mos maiorum for much of their expected behavior. We fell under the same spell and failed to consider that a president would dare attempt some of this stuff. We relied on shame instead of written law in many cases. It's ridiculous any way you slice it.
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Obviously the son of Titus Pullo
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But the general public is stuck on one. The biological species concept.
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It's no coincidence that the so called carnivore diet is gaining popularity. Many of the reasons for this has nothing to do with diet.