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Living Together is a loaded term suggesting peaceful coexistence. I think it's much more likely each species/sub-species in turn drove each other out of a desir
by jackfoxy 7y ago
Living Together is a loaded term suggesting peaceful coexistence. I think it's much more likely each species/sub-species in turn drove each other out of a desirable habitat over a very short period of time, in geological time. But 10s of thousands of years is a long time for individuals and clans. The different species may have never even seen each other.
The actual paper Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo erectus in South Africa does not suggest any of this.
- Accujack 7y agoAwww... I was kind of hoping the three species would be Homo Rossus, Paranthropus Chandlerus, and Australopithecus Josephus.
- dntbnmpls 7y agoAs parent noted, these species probably weren't friends.
- mirimir 7y agoWell, are lions and tigers "friends"? Or wolves and coyotes? Or brown bears and grizzlies? With various human species, it could have been more complicated. Slavery would arguably have been likely.
- twojacobtwo 7y agoThe joke was that all the names GP listed were references to characters from the television show "Friends".
- mirimir 7y agoHuh. I know the show, but I managed to never see more than a few seconds of it at any one time ;)