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Great question. When people say outcompete it can certainly include violence but we’re talking about populations spread over continents over thousands of years.
by peacebeard 5mo ago
Great question. When people say outcompete it can certainly include violence but we’re talking about populations spread over continents over thousands of years. Factors like technology, fertility, adaptability, etc. are more what people mean when they said outcompete.
- kjkjadksj 5mo ago[flagged]
- peacebeard 5mo agoThis is accurate for post history but evidence doesn't support this for prehistoric hunter gatherer tribes.
- kjkjadksj 5mo agoSure it does. We see cultural displacement in the archaeological record all over the world. Bones marred by marks of damage by weapons. Otzi the iceman was possibly hunted down and smote on the mountainside like the Balrog Gandalf did in.
- peacebeard 5mo agoI’m not saying violence didnt happen, of course it did! I’m saying the evidence is not that neanderthals were simply eradicated like animals that were hunted to extinction and that multiple factors led to their gradual decline over time.