#...and mean neandetrthals as black?... just a blind spot to be aware of
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Humans vs Superhumans | When Monsters Were Real and We Almost Went Extinct
rethinking, re-imagining, revisiting our conceptions of ancient hominids
...Tolkien was less of a fiction writer than you might think, a great writer indeed but so much of it is actually based on stories mirrored by recent scientific discoveries...
and yet also the skin coloration critique remains like, why is it that when we thought neanderthals were like, these gentle giants we depicted them as whiteys, now that we realize neanderthals were just brutal savage destroyers of human lives and hunted humans we’re going to let AI depict neanderthals as dark skinned now? blind spot alert ...
like fully decoding the fact that neanderthals were pale skinned beasts, quite aggressive compared to humans... does this explain a lot of why honky caucasians seem to be more aggressive generally?...
I have heard of the “Dravidian Albino” explanation hypothesis for white people, bu problem is, even if you have two Dravidian albinos making babies, three out of four of those babies are going to be dark skinned. It’s a really recessive trait.
I can definitely say I have the “Neanderthal bump,” or aka the occipital pad, the back-of-head knob that allows my weirdly huge part-neanderthal-mostly-human brain to sit on top of my otherwise-normal human shaped and sized body... I mean I definitely have a larger head than most people. I’m a freak and I’ve had to live with it lol I look like an alien... but still had also my cousin do a DNA test and sure enough we’re a few percent Neanderthal. So while some humans do have the occipital pad, all Neanderthals did, and I’m one human with an occipital pad / neanderthal bump with also the verified neanderthal DNA... does eating meat really drive you crazy like this, into a violent mad being?
#youtube#ancient history#5 million years ago#1 million years ago#500 k years ago#how did Neanderthals and humans interact#not saying anything one way or another about color of neanderthal skin but my oh my aren't the nice neanderthals depicted as white...#...and mean neandetrthals as black?... just a blind spot to be aware of#anthropology#archaeology#hot takes#the tea
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