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You really think we would have let a competing species exist?
by MagicMoonlight 5mo ago
You really think we would have let a competing species exist?
- peacebeard 5mo agoLions, bears, wolves, etc all survived us
- bschwarz 5mo agoBears and wolves were indeed "removed" from parts of Europe by humans.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5mo agoThere is a long list of Megafauna that did not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Pleistocene_extinctions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Pleistocene_extinctions
- peacebeard 5mo agoAh yeah looks I wasn't on the mark here. The "outcompete" framing is more accurate for neanderthals but for many pleistocene extinctions "hunted to extinction" did happen in some cases so it was not a good comparison. Thanks!
- prmoustache 5mo agoBarely and only because some of use decided to protect them.
- Cthulhu_ 5mo agoDepends on whether they were considered competing, and whether "we" were as organized, single-minded and competitive as this statement seems to imply - "we" probably weren't, not until larger kingdoms and empires started forming ~4000 years ago.
- kjkjadksj 5mo ago[flagged]
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- josefx 5mo agoBiological classifications are one gigantic mess. There are multiple ways to define what qualifies as a "species". One of them is procreation and viable offspring, going by modern human DNA and the Neanderthal fragments contained in it we where one big happy family all along.