Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Research Finds

Re:Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Resea... by renlo on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @09:19AM (#20564540)

When I see a videos / images of wolves I don’t perceive that “intelligence” that I perceive from dogs. Not to say wolves are any less intelligent or cognitive, dogs just have had the constraint that they needed to be able to communicate with humans well or they could die.

Kind of makes me think if we ever were to encounter extraterrestrial intelligence we might have trouble identifying them as intelligent, or, have trouble communicating with them, because we have trouble identifying and communicating with the terrestrial intelligence that surrounds us and is abundant.

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Re:Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Resea... by d4mi3n on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @01:03PM (#20566810)

Fun fact: Dogs developed whole extra sets of facial muscles during their domestication: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/06/domestic...

This happened in a remarkably short period of time, and the running theory is that early dogs with more expressiveness were better cared for and received by human societies than similar dogs that were less expressive.

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Re:Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Resea... by simondw on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @10:24AM (#20565060)

Depends on the situation in which we encounter the aliens. If wolves were building interplanetary spacecraft, we'd have a hard time saying they weren't intelligent.

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Re:Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Resea... by Juliate on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @12:02PM (#20566178)

If they were, we probably wouldn't be there to see it. :D

Where No Wolf Has Gone Before.

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