Yeah, and modern humans are still just idiots grunting at each other.
AND we successfully walked on the moon.
Turns out idiots grunting at each other can actually be pretty smart sometimes.
aevelys on
and also; exterminate the majority of terrestrial megafauna with only sticks and stones
imrduckington on
While its fair that ancient humans were much more intelligent, clever, and creative then we often give them credit for, you must remember that what we have is a very very small data sample of skeletons, artifacts, etc that doesn’t show a complete picture, and likely suffers from plenty of survivorship bias
jrex703 on
Both can be true. The size of our brain, and its innate ability to understand these grunts in context is what makes us special.
Squirrels also lack farming, medicine, and electricity, and they did just fine during the Ice age. And while that was not an intentional reference to Scrat, it brings up the point that increased glaciation was really not *that* big of a deal. Africa, Malaysia, and Beringia are all pretty great places to live.
Beat_Saber_Music on
They literally huntwd most of the world’s megafauna outside Africa and parts of Asia to extinction, and that wasn’t due to just grunting at each other
Kitfennek on
Note that we are still in an ice age
Shinyhero30 on
Yes they did but with 40x the death toll.
Moose-Rage on
They figured out how to cut a hole in someone’s head and have them live for 30-40 more years.
Habarer on
well, they didnt have feminism and affirmative action thats for sure
Bitter_Surprise_8058 on
Far Cry Primal was a really nice one for showing how stone age communities would work. They engineered a while language for the game, as well
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Yeah, and modern humans are still just idiots grunting at each other.
AND we successfully walked on the moon.
Turns out idiots grunting at each other can actually be pretty smart sometimes.
and also; exterminate the majority of terrestrial megafauna with only sticks and stones
While its fair that ancient humans were much more intelligent, clever, and creative then we often give them credit for, you must remember that what we have is a very very small data sample of skeletons, artifacts, etc that doesn’t show a complete picture, and likely suffers from plenty of survivorship bias
Both can be true. The size of our brain, and its innate ability to understand these grunts in context is what makes us special.
Squirrels also lack farming, medicine, and electricity, and they did just fine during the Ice age. And while that was not an intentional reference to Scrat, it brings up the point that increased glaciation was really not *that* big of a deal. Africa, Malaysia, and Beringia are all pretty great places to live.
They literally huntwd most of the world’s megafauna outside Africa and parts of Asia to extinction, and that wasn’t due to just grunting at each other
Note that we are still in an ice age
Yes they did but with 40x the death toll.
They figured out how to cut a hole in someone’s head and have them live for 30-40 more years.
well, they didnt have feminism and affirmative action thats for sure
Far Cry Primal was a really nice one for showing how stone age communities would work. They engineered a while language for the game, as well