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I imagine hunter-gatherers, whose life depended on their eyesight acuity, would be find it easier to spot than most modern humans do.
by pegasus 6y ago
I imagine hunter-gatherers, whose life depended on their eyesight acuity, would be find it easier to spot than most modern humans do.
- comboy 6y agoPlus light pollution and air pollution. Maybe some other changes in the atmosphere. And very careful looking. You don't need lenses, just looking through a hole in a leaf could be helpful.
- scotty79 6y agoI think the problem is not that the star is faint but it's drowned in the light of other star nowadays
- bee_rider 6y agoThey also probably didn't Netflix subscriptions so the only way to entertain themselves was "Star look and chill."
- pegasus 6y agoFor skeptical downvoters: http://darwinian-medicine.com/the-perfect-eyesight-of-hunter-gatherers/ http://darwinian-medicine.com/the-perfect-eyesight-of-hunter...
- sebmellen 6y agoIndigenous Australians also have incredibly good eyesight, and are probably the people group best preserved in our deeper evolutionary past. See, for example, this article on their special military unit https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-08/prince-harry-may-struggle-to-keep-up-with-aboriginal-super-sight/6378066 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-08/prince-harry-may-stru....
- astrange 6y agoAll people are equally old of course, but if you mean the ones closest related to a 100k-year-old hunter gatherer group I think that would be the San or another African group. (They of course aren't completely the same either.) The Australians encountered multiple non-homo-sapiens species on their way to Australia and might have even picked up better vision from them. They do apparently have better temperature regulation suited to desert nights.