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Almost all Neandertal specimen have this wearing away of the front teeth. It's not strange that they were using their teeth as tools but the ubiquity of this one type of wear pattern makes me wonder what exactly they were all doing
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Thread of my favorite Ancient Greek epitaphs . ⚠️Trigger warning for sensitive young men⚠️
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Maybe they held hides in their mouth in order to tan them? Maybe they used their teeth to prepare wood tools? Did they use their teeth on animal bones to get at marrow? . This is a behavior that was universally and uniquely Neandertal which we might never know.
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Even juvenile specimen have the wear pattern, it's consistent across thousands of miles, and it isn't present in any other species. So it seems to be one specific and unique behavior that all Neandertal populations frequently used their teeth for which started in childhood
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@MungoManic It seems men have more wear on their upper teeth and women have more on their lower teeth
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I once had a medical anthropology professor show a picture like this and say “Health is relative. This tribe elongates their babies heads. That doesn’t make them objectively unhealthy in any way -who knows- maybe it even makes them smarter”
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These each have a harder impact in two translated lines than anything written in the last century (barring everything written by @plethonist)
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In 1966 a Harvard Anthropologist named Richard Lee who worked with the !Kung bushman organized a conference titled "Man the Hunter" which spawned myths about hunter-gatherers based on overgeneralizations, ideology, and lies that have perpetuated until today.🧵
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This is actually one of the most common Indo European folk tales present from Scandinavia to India. Not uniquely American just uniquely Aryan.
Devil Went Down to Georgia is fascinating to me because it’s so American. In any other culture it would be a cautionary tale of hubris and fooling with the demonic. But in America, Johnny actually is just better than the Devil. It’s so American.
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And again, actual HG life is violent, hierarchical, and starvation is always a possibility. Very far from what Lee called "primitive communism" and Sahlins called "affluent." Turns out the two Jewish boys from the city didn't really have a good understanding of nature!
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There was a turn back to reality in 1978 when Carol Ember actually reviewed the data (179 societies) and found that the Bushman model is not accurate:.1) Patrilocal in general.2) Gathering is not very important.3) Men contribute more than women to subsistence.4) Warfare is common
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In the 60s/70s the Bushman model pushed the same ideology all of academia (and the US) was heading towards. Equality, peacefulness, "primitive communism," “original affluent society” … all showing HG life as a hippie commune longhouse
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Marshall Sahlins, a notorious anti-Vietnam protestor who, according to his obituary, “was not known for his field work…” used the conference to push his idea that HG life is easy. Although anthropologists who have actually spent time in the field tend to disagree
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And for the cherry on top: Lee DROVE !Kung women in his JEEP to the groves!. Lee pretending this was an accurate sample for ideological reasons was borderline fraud and has caused a massive amount of misunderstandings about HG today.
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This was in stark contrast to most existing HG research which focused on Abos. This earlier “Australian Model” had assumed HG cooperatively hunted large game, were territorial, had arranged marriage, kin-based organization, male power, had to work hard, and warfare was important
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The “Bushman model” which arose from this conference claims that HG are egalitarian, low fertility, not territorial, peaceful, dependent on plants, work little, live in small mobile groups, share widely to non-kin, and women produce more food and have some political power
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So the Bushman model utterly fails when looking at HG outside of southern Africa. But it turns out the Bushman model doesn’t even describe the Bushman themselves accurately!.
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In reality: no other HG group eats nuts/seeds. Men produce more food than women. Animal products are much more important (Note these images still use Lee’s estimate). Plus it is expected that hunting would be MORE important in temperate environments (all modern HG are tropical)
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Lee’s !Kung estimate (marked with a 1 below) is vastly different from a separate !Kung study. The main difference between Lee’s estimate and every other entry here is that, instead of a year, Lee only measured a 28-day period, starting July 6th, the HEIGHT of the dry season!
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Despite admitting in his book that mongongo nuts are only eaten in the dry season, Lee pushed his estimate as if it was a representative sample. The !Kung also happened to be at a site in walking distance of 11 of their favorite groves for the whole month.
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The only time Nietzsche’s genome was sequenced the data was lost in a freak server accident… what are they hiding? Makes me shudder to think about…
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@PaleoLaura Are you kidding? The references are right in the tweet. But if you need direct links: . (page 440 for patrilocality). (page 160 for female contribution).
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@CDarmangeat @PaleoLaura Well maybe if you spent more time in the field and less time reading Marx & Engels you would actually know what you are talking about!
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@SwissSebastian @gunk4188 I was just thinking about him… hope he’s holed up in Sardinia with a nuraghic babe.
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@bronzeagemantis I like to frantically chase dog & be chased by dog with many “jukes” until we both collapse on grass, panting.
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Watching nature documentaries at work. Was APPALLED to find out my coworkers root for the antelopes over the lions.
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Left Nietzscheans love to say this because they can’t provide a single piece of literary evidence for their claims. When faced with quote after quote of Nietzsche’s obvious disdain and mockery for their beliefs the best they can do is tell you to be “morally serious”.
The best part about self-styled “Left Nietzcheans” is that they actually do the reading and treat it with subtlety and moral seriousness instead of cherry-picking bombastic aphorisms and practicing the genuinely fascist hermeneutic of literalizing everything.
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I remember my middle school science teacher telling us (smugly, for some reason) that it’s the male seahorses who get pregnant. I asked why we didn’t just call the ones that get pregnant female. She stared blankly for a long time and said she’d “look into it”.
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Neandertals have a distinct suite of characteristics that is usually thought of as "cold-adapted" . But a more accurate hypothesis seems to be that they were a "mountain people"
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@istvaeonic @hope_pead The female orgasm is an adaptation which increases the likelihood of conception, but only when mating with men with good genes. The only predictors we know of for whether a woman orgasms from penetration is both how attractive and how masculine he is
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@CDarmangeat @PaleoLaura I'm not talking about what specifically is in the book but the effect the conference had on the image of HG both within the field and among the public. The Bushman model dominated and is why Embers had to write a paper about HG myths. Talk to any HG researcher and they will agree.
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Only Germans can critique Germans if anyone else does it it sounds like cope.
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It’s very strange that people have such an investment in “disproving” OaA when this just means that all of your ancestors were in Africa up until maybe 600kya instead of 200kya.
Interesting that David Reich says that the genetics now partly disproves the "Out of Africa" theory of human evolution. People's ancestors came from all over the place not just from Africa. (I say "partly disproves" because some ancestors are from Africa.)
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The referenced quote was taken from a letter Nietzsche wrote to Georg Brandes on January 4, 1889: "After you discovered me, it was no great feat to find me. The problem now is how to lose me.".
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τὸ ἀντίξουν συμφέρον καὶ ἐκ τῶν διαφερόντων καλλίστην ἁρμονίαν καὶ πάντα κατ' ἔριν γίνεσθαι .What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.
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Just had a dream that my gf and I had a threesome with bimbo ubermensch while Hanania watched.
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@wes_standridge @israel_remnant @SensitiveMan88 Idk about them but why is your brother supporting a kid that isn't his.
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One of them asked why the camera crew doesn’t INTERVENE when a lion attacks a herd.
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Vitamin A toxicity in a 1.7 mya Homo erectus femur. Likely from eating carnivore liver
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@MungoManic Similarly, some of the only ancient DNA we have from Africa comes from the cold, dry highlands of Malawi. And only because an anthropologist had happened to vacation there once!
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Traditional stories contain a lot of truth; people in them act how people in real life act. Now stories are made up by people who don’t understand human nature or try to subvert it.
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Contrary to popular belief the Irish are not genetically Celts but something much… older… .
UNPOPULAR OPINION: . The IRISH are doing the manly thing and REVOLTING because their average IQ is LOWER than the rest of occupied Europe. Primitive, raw, low-brow, brutal manliness can be a GOOD thing. Fáilte go hÉirinn!
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It seems that the uniqueness of Neandertal legs, feet, spines, and even noses were adapted to altitude and not temperature. Envisioning Neandertals as a mountain people gives you a much more accurate picture than any other story you will hear
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Did human cells enslave mitochondria… or was it the other way around? Their DNA is not human and is not contained in your chromosomes… Can they be considered a parasite? Is peating their final victory? These are questions that need to be asked….
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The American Anthropological Association just cancelled a seminar on biological sex because it ran contrary to “settled science” … but didn’t cancel a session which considers the existence of GHOSTS.
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I never would've noticed but now it's so obvious
Well the Kennis Bros told me they took the expression from a picture of Sean Connery. .
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You often learn in Anthropology classes about the "paradox" between Australopithecus afarensis' undeniably huge sexual dimorphism in body size, and their lack of sexual dimorphism in canine teeth
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There’s still people talking with authority about how “our evolution wasn’t built on even weekly meat consumption”. Meanwhile… (and this is including Lee’s fraudulent !Kung data too!)
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@bertrandbookwrm @Alkibiades_ For the referenced passage from Genealogy of Morals try Clark and Swensen. Horstmann and Norman for Beyond Good and Evil. Commons or Parkes for Zarathustra. Ludovici for everything else.
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Women say they prefer masculine partners. But, when rating faces, there's no correlation between the ones rated attractive and the ones rated masculine. Yet the amount of sex a man has DOES correlate with rated masculinity and NOT with rated attractiveness. Whats going on here?
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Coworker told me people from rice-eating cultures live the longest. I told her eunuchs live even longer.
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It wasn’t until years later that I discovered the real, biological definitions for male and female in any species only have to do with the size of the gametes! Or how this one difference has drastic downstream effects.
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Neandertals also have strangely straight spines. Unfortunately very little research has been done on the implications of this, but it seems to have obvious structural and stability benefits. Especially when needing to keep your balance while carrying things up a mountain
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The true Jewish question: is the benefit of verbal intelligence strong enough to justify the communist tendencies you might also inherit? Do we assimilate the Jews? To bleach or not to bleach?.
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@LegoRacers2 @ColmGuapo Jim Morrison had an IQ of 149 and did high school projects on sixteenth century demonology, Joyce, and Nietzsche
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I’m very relieved the Trump administration went with this definition, which has much fewer exceptions (basically none) than the popular chromosome one.
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The whole debate becomes pointless if you don't believe in a soul. What are "you" if not your genes?.
“[T]he nature-nurture debate is now over.”. [Link below.]
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I never got the privacy concerns about genetic testing. My genetic code should be published more than the Bible. It should be stored in a nuclear-safe vault in Norway. It should be pre installed in every hard drive. Children should have to memorize it in school.
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Surprisingly, women were the stated motive in only 25% of killings in traditional lowland South American societies, where revenge/honor seems to be much more important
In Australian tribes, fighting over women was the main cause of conflict. Of 110 battles with a known cause, 64% were about women
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Neandetals certainly lived in colder environments than early humans, but they went extinct during a glacial maximum. How did we outcompete them in their own freezing environment?.
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@bronzeagemantis Heard gril yesterday say she “get ick” from male bonding. She ask “what do men have to bond over? Oppressing women?” Hehe… yes.
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You can tell when a young woman will hit menopause by looking at her face. Expected age at menopause is correlated with facial attractiveness in woman 25-35 even when controlling for current fertility, true age, apparent age, and femininity
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@TheGoldenLion_1 Tacitus says the German elite took multiple wives. Elite polygyny is by far the most common marriage practice in the world at 85% of all societies (with the rest being monogamous.) Being maybe slightly more monogamous than average is not what made Germans great.
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If you consider all of the natural laws inherent to biology you can see how totally random mutations can cause species to “flow” into preconfigured niches.
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Ability to differentiate between morality and social convention:. 1. UPENN students (>80% white at the time).2. Upper class (white) Americans.3. Upper class Brazilians (Porto Alegre is white).4. Lower class Philadelphians (black).5. Lower class Brazilians (Recife is black)
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But one study showed that bovids who live in mountainous environments have shorter lower legs than their counterparts in flat environments- regardless of temperature
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@KhalkeionGenos I think that if you can’t imagine how that could evolve from incremental steps you are just lacking imagination.
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@devonwebbnz @palecarnagemist >wrote something that actually reads like a poem. This is what these people consider poetry.
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You think Christianity was the first slave revolt? This goes back farther than you could imagine…
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There seems to be two evolutionary lineages that had brain reorganization seen through changes in shape (forehead) and size (cranial capacity, measured in cc). Their relationship is unclear but they are most easily classified by square and round dental arcades
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Works like a charm. They don’t have to actually justify any claim, they just say whatever bs they want and tell you that you just didn’t read him “properly”.
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Lucy was found eroding head first out of the side of a ravine. Her skull had already become completely unearthed and had fallen onto a path in the gully below where it was trampled by cattle and their herders. This is all that survived
The Rosetta Stone was found buried in a random wall during demolition. Machu Piccu was an overgrown, abandoned nothing until Hiram Bingham stumbled upon it. Archeology & anthropology are entirely European conceits. We're the only reason the riches of dirt world are preserved.
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Of course there is! It makes Neandertals better at calf raises (and going up mountains)
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There is some truth to Neandertals being "cave men." They are almost always found in rock shelters. Of course they needed protection from the cold, but many of their traits seem to be more related to altitude at second glance
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But something else was going on at this time. A clear increase in BIPEDALITY. Maybe we were just no longer fighting with our teeth!
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