Message from @Sock
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Yeah. As our closest living relative. There are a whole pile of extinct hominids on our fork. Likely a lot of extinct pongids on theirs we just don't focus on the chimp fossil records like we do hominids. There's a chimp genome project though so we can get a lot of data from that.
Progressive is kinda a broad label. Wouldn't identify with sjws if that's what you mean
This gets kinda weird though because there is more genetic variation between populations of chimps on the same landmass than there is among humans on the planet. Genetic expression is some weird shit my dude.
right
when you said common ancestor i assumed you meant most recent human from whom all living people are descended
which was definitely not 5m y.a.
One theory is that we had a mass die-off event in the late paleolithic that created a sort of genetic choke point and that would explain the lack of variation. But no for human ancestors we've got aa decent gauge of time and place using MtDNA. Because it is non-recombinant we don't have to estimate cross-breeding.
Spermatazoa are too small to contain Mitochondria so it is strictly maternal. That makes it really convenient to track descent because we can ignore other factors.
Mumble rap should actually be illegal.
For more info on the die off check out joe rogans podcasts with graham hancock
they just did one but there are a couple others
No people have an innalable right to make horrible music. And I have an insliable right to look down on them for their poor taste.
I don't know Hancock in particular but it is a fairly well accepted theory in the literature. It's also theorized that under such a die-off event the Hamilton inequality would be maximized again giving an evolutionary cause for our unusual prosocial behavior. We cannot **prove** this but it has some value as a model.
ohh sorry my bad
But it's not music.
i wasnt reading carefully
It's audible poison.
graham hancock is the dude who's proposing some cataclysm that effected whatever civilizations might have existed 12,800 years ago
a much less accepted idea
@Sock
I didn't say anything was particularly bad. I think Rogan is a valuable outlet I just do not know that specific individual.
oh no im not accusing you of anything, i made a mistake
wait, nvm we might be talking about the same thing
i just dont know my eras very well
12800 would have been late paleolithic or upper Halocene so well within the timeline. It's a bit early though because our species had already dispersed by that point. So (without knowing all of Hancock's ideas) I think he might be going too short term for the event to have merit.
There's some speculative climatology in this too. Like the central African biome was much more temperate back then. It is entirely possible that we left that climate because it became more hostile over the course of the Holocene.
where's our American Canuck lover?
honk honk bitches
Never turn your back on the shifty-eyed Canuck. 1812 NEVER FORGET!
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It's a shame KingCanuck left for Athens ages ago
The wildlings North of The Wall do not know civilization nor decency.
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cool nazi coin, canada
🤦 so embarassing
There are only two species. Humans, and Canadians.
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Wtf is a coin doing with colors on it?