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This isnt new information. This was taught during my history degree 15 years ago. Unfortunately this is symptomatic for the way fields like history and archaeo
by FranzFerdiNaN 8y ago
This isnt new information. This was taught during my history degree 15 years ago.
Unfortunately this is symptomatic for the way fields like history and archaeology communicate: lots of repeating old news, lots of overblown statements about new discoveries (archaeology in Israel is especially guilty of this, with every find supposedly proving the Bible right), lots of trying to link the past to the present (America is Rome! Cyrus the Great was concerned with human rights!) and not at all about methodology and how historians analyze and interpret the past.
- Symmetry 8y agoIt looks like in this case they have new information supporting old hypotheses at least, that bit about muscle composition alleles.
- darkerside 8y agoI'm not sure why this is the way that it is, but it's emblematic of human nature. Information isn't always composed of raw facts. There's a presentation layer that sits on top and is needed for humans to parse and process that information. i.e. You can present the same facts with a new interpretation, making it essentially new information. I'm not sure this isn't a feature, as opposed to a bug, of human thinking.