I think that this is where our fear of the uncanny valley comes from. Think about it, such a honed perception of things that *seem* like us but for some reason just *aren’t*, we learned evolutionarily to fear and revile our closest genetic relatives until we wiped them out.
There was a point in time when there *could* have been something like a skinwalker, someone who looks like you, acts like you, smells like you, but you can just *tell* they *aren’t* like you. And for some reason, the biological urge to fear that and be xenophobic towards it won out to the urge to be egalitarian and xenophilic towards it.
Back when humans had competitors for who was the most human species was a wild and brutal time, the competition would have been crazy, inventing tools would have easily lent itself to making tools of war, controlling fire turning into ways to set it upon your enemies.
TraditionalClub6337 on
You know neanderthals weren’t necessarily less intelligent than us we just can’t know yet
Nappy-I on
There’s some evidence to suggest instances of interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens, so… at least a 6/10.
Scribe_WarriorAngel on
We fucked, and murdered them into extinction, they probably saw us pretty much how we see human like machines
NeedsToShutUp on
Swap them. Blondes from Northern Europe have generally higher Neanderthal DNA.
SatanicPeach_666 on
Isn’t there evidence Neanderthals were actually smarter?
anomie89 on
check out the short comic story Neanderthal by Frank Frazzetta
1000Zasto1000Zato on
People who are saying that Neanderthals weren’t exterminated by us because some random person out there has 5% of their genes are coping hard. There are exactly 0 (zero!) Neanderthals on this planet right now and our ancestors are to blame
Ebantero on
On base instincts alone made with mematic?
Polirketes on
I may ask my neighbour what he thinks of us
Filipino-Asker on
I get this a lot 😭
smileyskies on
*homo sapiens. Neanderthals were also human.
00ishmael00 on
the same way trump perceives smart people
– Smart people don’t like me.
GovernmentBig2749 on
i have a friend who is a direct decendant of the Nederlander…
Gorianfleyer on
Aren’t Neanderthals Homo Sapiens too?
I tried to find it on Wikipedia, but there isn’t a source for what I learnt in school about the “Homo Sapiens Neandertalensis”
Hein_h_soe on
I read netherlands instead of Neanderthals.
SAMU0L0 on
“I always wonder how Neanderthals perceived Homo Sapiens”
Considering that most humans have
Neanderthal DNA now i suppose that most of them consideren the other side pretty hot.
Misterfahrenheit120 on
Definitely read that as “Netherlands” and as a German though “yeah”
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I think that this is where our fear of the uncanny valley comes from. Think about it, such a honed perception of things that *seem* like us but for some reason just *aren’t*, we learned evolutionarily to fear and revile our closest genetic relatives until we wiped them out.
There was a point in time when there *could* have been something like a skinwalker, someone who looks like you, acts like you, smells like you, but you can just *tell* they *aren’t* like you. And for some reason, the biological urge to fear that and be xenophobic towards it won out to the urge to be egalitarian and xenophilic towards it.
Back when humans had competitors for who was the most human species was a wild and brutal time, the competition would have been crazy, inventing tools would have easily lent itself to making tools of war, controlling fire turning into ways to set it upon your enemies.
You know neanderthals weren’t necessarily less intelligent than us we just can’t know yet
There’s some evidence to suggest instances of interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens, so… at least a 6/10.
We fucked, and murdered them into extinction, they probably saw us pretty much how we see human like machines
Swap them. Blondes from Northern Europe have generally higher Neanderthal DNA.
Isn’t there evidence Neanderthals were actually smarter?
check out the short comic story Neanderthal by Frank Frazzetta
People who are saying that Neanderthals weren’t exterminated by us because some random person out there has 5% of their genes are coping hard. There are exactly 0 (zero!) Neanderthals on this planet right now and our ancestors are to blame
On base instincts alone made with mematic?
I may ask my neighbour what he thinks of us
I get this a lot 😭
*homo sapiens. Neanderthals were also human.
the same way trump perceives smart people
– Smart people don’t like me.
i have a friend who is a direct decendant of the Nederlander…
Aren’t Neanderthals Homo Sapiens too?
I tried to find it on Wikipedia, but there isn’t a source for what I learnt in school about the “Homo Sapiens Neandertalensis”
I read netherlands instead of Neanderthals.
“I always wonder how Neanderthals perceived Homo Sapiens”
Considering that most humans have
Neanderthal DNA now i suppose that most of them consideren the other side pretty hot.
Definitely read that as “Netherlands” and as a German though “yeah”