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A comment on Mastodon Bone Findings Could Upend Our Understanding of Human History (2017).

Re:Mastodon Bone Findings Could Upend Our Understanding of H... by aaaaaaaaaab on Monday September 24, 2018 @07:20AM (#18056722)
Off: I chuckle everytime I’m misled like this when skimming through HN titles. Yesterday there was a piece about Kafka (the writer, not the event stream) and now this Mastodon stuff.
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Re:Mastodon Bone Findings Could Upend Our Understanding of H... by 1up8192 on Monday September 24, 2018 @08:07AM (#18056962)
When I've seen mastodon in one of the titles for the first time here I was surprised, because I thought that one of my favorite bands are being discussed here.
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Re:Mastodon Bone Findings Could Upend Our Understanding of H... by djsumdog on Monday September 24, 2018 @10:09AM (#18057771)
Yea, my mind immediately jumped to that as well, probably because I recently setup my own Mastodon instance recently.
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Re:Mastodon Bone Findings Could Upend Our Understanding of H... by mywittyname on Monday September 24, 2018 @11:21AM (#18058419)
The title seems inline with the quotes from experts:

> “My first reaction on reading this paper was ‘No. This is wrong. Something’s wrong,'” said stone tool expert John McNabb of the University of Southampton in Britain. “If it does turn out to be true, it changes absolutely everything.”

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> “This discovery is rewriting our understanding of when humans reached the New World,” Judy Gradwohl, president and CEO of the San Diego Natural History Museum, said in a statement.

Those quotes were probably cherry picked and a little out of context, but when experts in the field use such strong language, I think it's justified for reporters to do the same.

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Re:Mastodon Bone Findings Could Upend Our Understanding of H... by brittohalloran on Monday September 24, 2018 @11:25AM (#18058453)
I believe the original comment was referring to being misled / confused about the decentralized social network Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org/), not being misled as to the significance of the finding.
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Re:Mastodon Bone Findings Could Upend Our Understanding of H... by mywittyname on Monday September 24, 2018 @01:50PM (#18059752)
Oh, I get it.
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