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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP31 Mar 2023 5:05 p.m. PST

… Years Have Shaped What Humans Are Today


"Humans have been evolving for millions of years.


However, the past 12,000 years have been the most dynamic and impactful for human living. According to Clark Spencer Larsen, a professor of anthropology at The Ohio State University, our modern world all started with the advent of agriculture


"The shift from foraging to farming changed everything," Larsen said…"


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Andy ONeill01 Apr 2023 9:05 a.m. PST

I found the book "thinking fast and slow" absolutely fascinating. "Fast" gut decisions let your ancestors survive. Same mechanism is still there and comes with some serious baggage.

Those mechanisms have been with us for hundreds of thousands of years.

Every time "they" make a discovery about early man, they push back when "sophisticated" behaviour and problems arose.

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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP01 Apr 2023 3:00 p.m. PST

Thanks

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Wolfhag Supporting Member of TMP01 Apr 2023 3:30 p.m. PST

I think humans stopped evolving about 100 years ago and have started a profound decline of de-evolving back to their true essential animal nature. Soon the education system will have us resembling dumbed-down Neanderthals with a vocabulary that consists of only calling each other names, getting offended easily, and existing only for free handouts.

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Hitman01 Apr 2023 4:43 p.m. PST

Wolfhag, that is hilarious!!

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP01 Apr 2023 11:15 p.m. PST

Or… a sad true… (smile)

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Personal logo Wolfshanza Supporting Member of TMP03 Apr 2023 10:13 p.m. PST

I have a terrible suspicion we're breeding Eloi ? :0

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