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My first thought was very disturbing, that they were bred by humans as pets.
by mkoubaa 2y ago
My first thought was very disturbing, that they were bred by humans as pets.
- danielbln 2y agoOr slaves.
- inglor_cz 2y agoYou don't really need slaves in a hunter and gatherer society (no agriculture, no construction, no mining = no backbreaking work that free people are loath to do), and you don't really have the institutions to keep them from running away. As far as our observations of Stone Age people go, if they catch someone, they either kill them or make them a permanent member of the group.
- brink 2y agoMasters have bred with slaves since the beginning of history. Abraham and Hagar, for example.
- dangitman 2y ago[dead]
- datameta 2y agoWe would see the heavy intermixture in one of the groups in that case. In addition, if one group was in homo sapiens captivity, then it is overwhelmingly likely that the other group would be found during those 50 thousand years (considering our propensity for migration).
- optimalsolver 2y agoNeapets