This also contributes to human eusociality. There is no way for a hunter to eat an elk or a bison before it goes bad. Even with his extended family. But if you store the meat in the stomachs of other families who might return the favor it does not go bad and it contributes to your survival.

And yeah I am going back a few millennia here. Even the Sentinel Island tribe who broke off, what? a few thousand years ago? Still have non-recurve bows. A much higher tech than most of human history.

you don't need bows though even

lot of people had spear throwers, abos used curved smoothed knotted throwing clubs

I was using Sentinel as a yardstick. Our species is something like 200K years old. So looking at the first 180K years or so it's flint tipped spears of salvaged wood.

I mean. I spent the last few years studying this so time perspective is important. Civilization is a new thing like the last few thousand years. An eyeblink in evolutionary time.

Well projectile weapons make exhaustion hunting even easier. Wound an animal badly it will exhaust far sooner.

Better if you just kill it though.

Also why humans are social cooperative creatures.

There are good reasons why humans operate the way they do.

And bad ones.

Right but that is relatively modern like the last 10000 years or so. Humans as a species separated from our common ancestor 3-5 million years ago.

Modern Homo-Sapiens like 150-200K.

Memes are actually the first barrier to a civilized culture of intelligent species.

Prove me wrong. You can't.

Ok yeah sure homo-kekis is the endgame of evolution all intelligent people know that.

Humans as a species separated from our common ancestor 3-5 million years ago.
wait what

neanderthals were under a mil

Neanderthals couldn't meme.

New theory.

100 years from now "progressives" will long be extinct and forgotten.

gonna need a lot of helicopters to make that happen

If I become dictator, I promise that will be the case

Yeah common ancestor. We're not descended from chimps. Chimps and humans have a common ancestor that is neither. Neanderthals were just another failed hominid offshoot. This kinda gets back to the ranged weapon thing if you look at the Mousterian toolsset.

Helicopters?

@Sock are you a progressive? >_>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KOddPQc7hk

I still want to see the Styx dream of gay people can manage their pot farms with machine guns.

Even though I personally don't like weed.

Also start the helis.

I don't like mumble rap. That doesn't mean it should be illegal....

@Jym just to clarify, by last common ancestor, you mean with chimps?

@Tero

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.