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> We’ve always classified Neanderthals, technically, as human — part of the genus Homo. I feel uncomfortable letting scientists decide whether an organism is '
by HillaryBriss 10y ago
> We’ve always classified Neanderthals, technically, as human — part of the genus Homo.
I feel uncomfortable letting scientists decide whether an organism is 'human' or not.
Shouldn't that designation be the province of a great human, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, someone like Mikail Gorbachev, Henry Kissinger or Yasser Arafat?
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- vixen99 10y agoThe fade technique is really PC. Make it difficult for folk to read opinions of which HN readers, on average, do not approve. A bann on 'hate' speech, lite!
- andrewflnr 10y agoIt's not PC, it's just not forcing people to read what, on average, they're unlikely to want to read.
- simonh 10y agoBecause success in one field, such as politics, is no indicator whatsoever of aptitude in an completely unrelated field, such as genetics or anthropology.