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Because homo sapiens have killed off all other competing humanoid species in the last ~100,000 years. Survival of the fittest ensures that if some species surv

by fooker 2y ago

Because homo sapiens have killed off all other competing humanoid species in the last ~100,000 years. Survival of the fittest ensures that if some species survived, they have to be specialized in avoiding humans.

pests 2y ago
> they have to be specialized in avoiding humans Exactly. What I find even more crazy is how other species of Homo were around until just 30,000 years ago and maybe as recently as 12,000. I find a lot of people have the perception that it was a much longer time but it could be as recent as the building of Gobekli Tepe.
olalonde 2y ago
They couldn't possibly know about trail cams though.
- lioeters 2y ago
  They would smell the human on the cameras from miles away.
- pests 2y ago
  Trail cams have to be set by humans. Humans leave a scent. Maybe they evolved to blacklist any area that at any time smelled like a human.
  - wil421 2y ago
    You describe pretty much any animal. They all want to avoid humans but there’s food all around our homes. Deer, coyotes, opossums, raccoons, turkey, and an occasional bear all live around me but are rarely seen. Most of them I only see at night on my cameras and I live in a suburban environment with a small patch of woods behind my house. We would’ve found bones from Bigfoot by now.
Retric 2y ago
Significant Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA stuck around because of interbreeding so there’s disagreement around if we’re actually different species vs subspecies. It depends on how viable offspring were in general and we just don’t know.
- fooker 2y ago
  There are plenty of hominids we could not interbreed with. And they are all extinct too.
  - Retric 2y ago
    > the last ~100,000 years Homo floresiensis sure, extend that a bit you can add erectus but after that? We don’t have a lot of closely related species in the last 200,000 years.
inversetelecine 2y ago
> they have to be specialized in avoiding humans. I've been trying for decades now :(
- fooker 2y ago
  Pretend you have ~~COVID~~ ~~Swine Flu~~ Monkey Pox!
cpeterso 2y ago
> Because homo sapiens have killed off all other competing humanoid species in the last ~100,000 years. Non-human humanoids are instinctually perceived as threats even today in our uncanny valley response.
mlloyd 2y ago
There's a great Dr Who episode (Listen) that hypothesized this very thing.

by fooker 2y ago

pests 2y ago

> they have to be specialized in avoiding humans Exactly. What I find even more crazy is how other species of Homo were around until just 30,000 years ago and maybe as recently as 12,000. I find a lot of people have the perception that it was a much longer time but it could be as recent as the building of Gobekli Tepe.

olalonde 2y ago

They couldn't possibly know about trail cams though.

lioeters 2y ago
They would smell the human on the cameras from miles away.
pests 2y ago
Trail cams have to be set by humans. Humans leave a scent. Maybe they evolved to blacklist any area that at any time smelled like a human.
- wil421 2y ago
  You describe pretty much any animal. They all want to avoid humans but there’s food all around our homes. Deer, coyotes, opossums, raccoons, turkey, and an occasional bear all live around me but are rarely seen. Most of them I only see at night on my cameras and I live in a suburban environment with a small patch of woods behind my house. We would’ve found bones from Bigfoot by now.

Retric 2y ago

Significant Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA stuck around because of interbreeding so there’s disagreement around if we’re actually different species vs subspecies. It depends on how viable offspring were in general and we just don’t know.

fooker 2y ago
There are plenty of hominids we could not interbreed with. And they are all extinct too.
- Retric 2y ago
  > the last ~100,000 years Homo floresiensis sure, extend that a bit you can add erectus but after that? We don’t have a lot of closely related species in the last 200,000 years.

inversetelecine 2y ago

> they have to be specialized in avoiding humans. I've been trying for decades now :(

fooker 2y ago
Pretend you have ~~COVID~~ ~~Swine Flu~~ Monkey Pox!

cpeterso 2y ago

> Because homo sapiens have killed off all other competing humanoid species in the last ~100,000 years. Non-human humanoids are instinctually perceived as threats even today in our uncanny valley response.

mlloyd 2y ago

There's a great Dr Who episode (Listen) that hypothesized this very thing.