Hunting Dinosaurs

[AV1611VET]

I don't think.

I've been told the same thing.

 

[JohnEmmett]

I've been told the same thing.

…

 

[JohnEmmett]

youtu.be/F-d4zfovcog?t=141

Why Is There No Record of Ancient Humans?

 

[Gene2memE]

youtu.be/F-d4zfovcog?t=141

Why Is There No Record of Ancient Humans?

Carlson is wrong here. There is a significant record of ancient humans - just not a written record. We have 10,000s of artifacts from anatomically modern humans: stone tools, burial sites, cave paintings with associated tools, fire pits, rubbish sites, shell beads and others that all date back 100,000+ years.

What Carlson (and others of similar ilk) don't understand is that behavioural modernity is much younger than anatomical modernity. Just because a homo sapiens from 200,000 to 300,000 years ago looked broadly similar to us (modern humans) in terms of their physical features, it does not mean they had broadly similar intelligence to us.

Societal advancement to the point where sedentary civilisations could develop required a series of major technological breakthroughs. The domestication of plants and animals, invention of irrigation, development of smooth tools and pottery, and permanent housing. These in turn led to a major population breakthroughs (the Neolithic Demographic Transitions), but these took several thousand years to occur.

As someone with education in history and a little bit of palentology, it's so frustrating to see things mis-represented to conform to some wishful thinking.

 

[JohnEmmett]

similar to us (modern humans) in terms of their physical features, it does not mean they had broadly similar intelligence to us

they built the pyramids, because they could


no one since, because they can't


this implies a decline…

 

[Gene2memE]

It doesn't.

Two questions:

How old do you think the pyramids are?

How old do you think behavioural modernity is?

 

[Estrid]

Carlson is wrong here. There is a significant record of ancient humans - just not a written record. We have 10,000s of artifacts from anatomically modern humans: stone tools, burial sites, cave paintings with associated tools, fire pits, rubbish sites, shell beads and others that all date back 100,000+ years.

What Carlson (and others of similar ilk) don't understand is that behavioural modernity is much younger than anatomical modernity. Just because a homo sapiens from 200,000 to 300,000 years ago looked broadly similar to us (modern humans) in terms of their physical features, it does not mean they had broadly similar intelligence to us.

Societal advancement to the point where sedentary civilisations could develop required a series of major technological breakthroughs. The domestication of plants and animals, invention of irrigation, development of smooth tools and pottery, and permanent housing. These in turn led to a major population breakthroughs (the Neolithic Demographic Transitions), but these took several thousand years to occur.

As someone with education in history and a little bit of palentology, it's so frustrating to see things mis-represented to conform to some wishful thinking.

Of course it's not " just because" but there is no reason to
think (H)omo sapiens was less intelligent a quarter millionyears ago than today.

 

[Gene2memE]

There is significant evidence of such. The size of the human brain is roughly the same as it was 300,000 years ago, but the shape and structure are different. The genetic evidence points to changes in the neocortex starting close to 100,000 years ago and continuing to around 12,000 years ago.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aao5961

Quantitative uniqueness of human brain evolution revealed through phylogenetic comparative analysis | eLife

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0500692102

 

[Estrid]

There is significant evidence of such. The size of the human brain is roughly the same as it was 300,000 years ago, but the shape and structure are different. The genetic evidence points to changes in the neocortex starting close to 100,000 years ago and continuing to around 12,000 years ago.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aao5961

Quantitative uniqueness of human brain evolution revealed through phylogenetic comparative analysis | eLife

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0500692102

Thanks.

I will study this

 

[JohnEmmett]

How old do you think the pyramids are?

You believe in evolution, I believe in decline

 

[Gene2memE]

You believe in evolution, I believe in decline

Evasion and dissembling noted. Also, I don't believe in evolution, I accept it provisionally as the best supported theory explaining the available evidence.

I repeat my questions though:

How old do you think the pyramids are?

How old do you think human behavioural modernity is?

 

[JohnEmmett]

I repeat my questions though:

How old do you think the pyramids are?

How old do you think human behavioural modernity is?

The latter is known, the former is not

But consider this…

youtube.com/watch?v=6lcjAg9HatM
Graham Hancock

 

[Gene2memE]

The latter is known, the former is not

But consider this…

youtube.com/watch?v=6lcjAg9HatM
Graham Hancock

I'll consider it when you answer my questions. How old do YOU think the pyramids are, and human behavioural modernity is?

 

[JohnEmmett]

How old do YOU think the pyramids are ?

The Age of Leo 10,006 BC

 

[Estrid]

There is significant evidence of such. The size of the human brain is roughly the same as it was 300,000 years ago, but the shape and structure are different. The genetic evidence points to changes in the neocortex starting close to 100,000 years ago and continuing to around 12,000 years ago.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aao5961

Quantitative uniqueness of human brain evolution revealed through phylogenetic comparative analysis | eLife

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0500692102

Said changes continuing during " ice age",
and ending with end of same, which afterall of human
history is roughly when pleistocene megafauna
became extinct and dog domestication,
agriculture etc begin.
A lot crowded in to a patch of
good weather.

 

[JohnEmmett]

youtube.com/watch?v=lASPp9stEYA

Are Humans the First Civilization? The Silurian Hypothesis

 

[Goonie]

News flash! Dinosaur spotted!

 

[jayem]

News flash! Dinosaur spotted!

Yes! I have a pet theropod at home. His name is Casper. He’s molting right now, so he looks kinda ratty. Who says dinosaurs have tiny brains? Casper knows exactly how to get what he wants. And he can talk—though only when he feels like it. And just like other theropods, he can bite. Which hurts like hell.