IT IS REALLY AN ENLIGHTENMENT LOCKEAN REASONED ACCOUNT OF PREHISTORY. IT IS ALMOST AS IF THE GOOD BUT OBSOLETE ARCHAIC HUMANS AGREED WITH THE MODERN HUMANS TO GO.
ALMOST A SOCIAL CONTRACT KIND OF ARCHAIC THING. ALL OF THEM GOOD HOMINIDS.
Sunday, October 13, 2019
MODERN HUMANS REICH'S ACCOUNT LIKE A LOCKE TABULA RASA OUT OF AFRICA
'The spread was so fast that it is hard to believe that archaic humans put up any resistance at all', really.
East Asia, West Eurasia, same almost instantaneous story he tells.
It somehow does not fit his male dominator mixture paradigm, so he can dismiss it as something he need not comment on adversely.
It is almost as if they were talked into their graves, reasoned into their graves by more enlightened humans than they, went extinct voluntarily without a struggle, acknowledged they were obsolete.
Hardly even any evidence of his favorite ancient human process, mixing. Almost no mixing here, between archaic humans, who had been there for almost 2 million years, with modern humans. Just an abrupt quiet early and welcome grave, to hear Reich recount it.
He makes it sound like a brief and peaceful liberal transition to modernity. David Reich, p. 191. An effect akin to erasing a blackboard, creating a blank slate for the new people......
I will tell you a different story, a darker story, anon.
'The spread was so fast that it is hard to believe that archaic humans put up any resistance at all', really.
East Asia, West Eurasia, same almost instantaneous story he tells.
It somehow does not fit his male dominator mixture paradigm, so he can dismiss it as something he need not comment on adversely.
It is almost as if they were talked into their graves, reasoned into their graves by more enlightened humans than they, went extinct voluntarily without a struggle, acknowledged they were obsolete.
Hardly even any evidence of his favorite ancient human process, mixing. Almost no mixing here, between archaic humans, who had been there for almost 2 million years, with modern humans. Just an abrupt quiet early and welcome grave, to hear Reich recount it.
He makes it sound like a brief and peaceful liberal transition to modernity. David Reich, p. 191. An effect akin to erasing a blackboard, creating a blank slate for the new people......
I will tell you a different story, a darker story, anon.
I will tell you a different story, a darker story, anon.
Sunday, November 3, 2019
NEANDERTHALS AND MODERN HUMANS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
Let's just describe the prehistory from the record that exists.
Neanderthals were very gradually driven to ground, over thousands of years of conflict, in what can only be described as a race or civilizational long war of attrition with modern human migrants out of Africa.
Neanderthals certainly weren't killed off suddenly by diseases.
They held territory, lost it, regained it, and lost it, over thousands of years of strife, from 2,600 to 5,400 years of overlap, according to Higham.
They intermixed slightly with modern humans, but that intermixing was minor compared to the violent population replacement that occurred gradually over a wide area over thousands of years.
Neanderthals weren't driven extinct by natural selection at all.
They were driven extinct by cultural conflict with modern human populations from which they differed markedly and readily identifiably in appearance and cultural heritage.
There is plenty of evidence in the fossil record that Neanderthals were often hunted and eaten like prey by modern humans in many places. Doubtless, the reverse is also true. Caves overlooking the Mediterranean in Spain are perhaps the most well known site.
It seems feasible, and probably genetically determinable, that Neanderthals were substantially more intelligent than modern humans.
It seems feasible, and probably genetically determinable, that Neanderthals were substantially more intelligent than modern humans.
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