Human intellectual capacity hasn’t really changed, we’ve just used that intellectual capacity to build off of previous discoveries. The same brain you use to solve problems today is the same brains that were being used to solve problems then – we just have a deeper context and contemporary systems supporting our problem solving.
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It’s interesting to consider that “cave men” were really just as intelligent as us. They had just as complex language and social lives. They had art and religion and culture.
They are literally us. We weren’t fundamentally different. They just lacked a few key discoveries that shaped later cultures. Writing probably being the main one.
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Caveman didn’t hoard toilet paper or panic when they couldn’t get haircuts or lattes.
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Also killed mammoths with gravity
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It would be cool to have more serious prehistoric historical fiction, though i understand the writing and marketing difficulties that would entail.
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Humans have always been pretty smart. There are signs of humans making tools for about 1 million years, give or take. There are signs of humans taking care of injured or disabled members of their family. We know this because there are remains that have been found of individuals with dwarfism living to adulthood or with injuries that would have made movement difficult living past normal age ranges for the time. Signs of fixing cavities in teeth or healing broken bones and even amputations. When humans became human in terms of having humanity and on the path to civilization is debatable. Probably when humans settled down or when humans started painting on caves. Probably the most accurate depiction of a caveman from what we know is probably Spear from Primal. Because he’s smart and an emotionally complex individual. Kind of ironic because he pretty much lives in a place that Conan the Barbarian would put his hands up and dip out on.
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If you see a painted cave such as Lascaux or Chauvet and still think that paleothic people were brutish savages you are the savage untouched by art.
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Most people dont even know how to start a fire.
Human intellectual capacity hasn’t really changed, we’ve just used that intellectual capacity to build off of previous discoveries. The same brain you use to solve problems today is the same brains that were being used to solve problems then – we just have a deeper context and contemporary systems supporting our problem solving.
It’s interesting to consider that “cave men” were really just as intelligent as us. They had just as complex language and social lives. They had art and religion and culture.
They are literally us. We weren’t fundamentally different. They just lacked a few key discoveries that shaped later cultures. Writing probably being the main one.
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Caveman didn’t hoard toilet paper or panic when they couldn’t get haircuts or lattes.
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Also killed mammoths with gravity
It would be cool to have more serious prehistoric historical fiction, though i understand the writing and marketing difficulties that would entail.
Humans have always been pretty smart. There are signs of humans making tools for about 1 million years, give or take. There are signs of humans taking care of injured or disabled members of their family. We know this because there are remains that have been found of individuals with dwarfism living to adulthood or with injuries that would have made movement difficult living past normal age ranges for the time. Signs of fixing cavities in teeth or healing broken bones and even amputations. When humans became human in terms of having humanity and on the path to civilization is debatable. Probably when humans settled down or when humans started painting on caves. Probably the most accurate depiction of a caveman from what we know is probably Spear from Primal. Because he’s smart and an emotionally complex individual. Kind of ironic because he pretty much lives in a place that Conan the Barbarian would put his hands up and dip out on.
If you see a painted cave such as Lascaux or Chauvet and still think that paleothic people were brutish savages you are the savage untouched by art.
If survivor bias was a meme.