Neanderthals had more gender equality, demonstrated in the far-ranging materials in female teeth and diets and the wear on bones indicative of shared labours. It's considered to be one of the reasons our ancestral strain triumphed: more role specialization, with all the cultural issues that came with it.
I wouldn't be so quick to suggest that the "better" strain of early hominin won out.
But I know you're having a rough go, too, so take care of your heart, eh?
@MLClark Yeah, just trying to be hopeful for us this time around.😊
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Ha ha! I concur, about the other hominid. CHtS. : )
The neanderthals were around for tens of thousands of years without killing one another and everything else off.
They were already getting to similar tool use that later hominids claimed to be masters of (I'd argue the latter piggybacked off neanderthal and other hominid's technology).
Modern humans are dumber, meaner, weaker, and make mistakes faster.
The way it looked to me the last time humans wiped out the other sort of humans, it was the deranged ones that wiped out the others (like the denisovans and neandertals), not the higher forms, that survived.
I expect the crazy ones to win unless everyone else does better than the neanderthals did in the face of their crazy offshoot relative.
@AskTheDevil Just trying to be optimistic that intelligence will overcome brawn this time.🤷♂️ @MLClark
I am hoping that life will triumph over anti-life.
I'd settle for empathy winning out over so-called intelligence *or* brawn at this point.
If we can't change our tribalism, we're doomed. And not because of war - we've always warred - but because we're doing our usual tribalist warring with tools exacerbating global warming to a point of no return: 7 of 8 planetary metrics already surpassed with no sign of them on the decline anytime soon. Our brains cannot conceive the scale of harm our oil imperialism has done.
I'd like to see both might and mind on the side of right and kind*!
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(*Dare I say, on the side of Good?)
@AskTheDevil Haven't you always though? @MLClark
@Tacitus_Kilgore
I think that was always what I wanted to do. But I have not always been good at doing it.
@MLClark Me too. Empathy is hard to carry with few hands. @AskTheDevil
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Assuming that the deranged portion doesn't take us with them when they go down.