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Hi everyone, just letting you all know, it's no surprise that modern homo sapiens ancestors bumped uglies with other species in the genus of homo back in the da
by corodra 7y ago
Hi everyone, just letting you all know, it's no surprise that modern homo sapiens ancestors bumped uglies with other species in the genus of homo back in the day. The enlightening part of this article is there are some unknown species in homo that we have genetic evidence of, but no fossil record. The thing you should be fascinated by, there were many contemporary relatives to homo sapiens that could have been as much or somewhat as intelligent. But they all disappeared and we are all that's left. We either killed them all or snoo-snooed them out of existence because homo sapiens seemed to have spawned faster and had more offspring in comparison.
So, please stop relating this to dogs fucking or being surprised that different species can tango under moonlight. Please stop.
Yes, different species, of different genders, of the same genus can warm up at night and spawn little hellions 7-9ish months later.
There's plenty of evidence that these other homo species were sophisticated, like the neanderthal. As much, if not more, that ancient homo sapiens (at the time).
Does that make a new species? Maybe. Current taxonomy guidelines are not perfect. There are other taxonomy systems out there that would spell this out, just not considered the universal standard we all know today. The problem is, how do you draw sharp lines in a blurry distinction without just creating a new "species" for every sexual adventurous encounter that results in a screaming child.
At the end, this article was cool and we should all be excited over this.
- shrimp_emoji 7y agoIs this a dog whistle of some kind? Otherwise, so unprovoked. >So, please stop relating this to dogs fucking or being surprised that different species can tango under moonlight. Please stop. Hot take: we had a common ancestor with dogs just 60 million years ago; a human and a dog is just like a reunion for old times' sake! With horrifyingly asymmetric power dynamics.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoNot sure why this is down-voted. It's spot on albeit devoid of the usual literary bubble wrap used when discussing this kind of thing in polite company. That there exist other similar species that we don't (yet) have a fossil record of is the interesting part here.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoYes that's the interesting part. But disagree that 'there's plenty of evidence'. The fact is, there's no evidence whatsoever - that's what 'unknown species' means.