Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old
by danieltillett on Thursday December 12, 2019 @02:53PM
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There is enough Neanderthal DNA in the modern non-sub-Saharan human population (we all have a few percent Neanderthal DNA, but that few percent is different in each of us) that some people probably think like Neanderthals.
Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old
by hutzlibu on Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:56PM
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I was more talking about the different mindset ... coming from a very different culture.
My point was actually that the DNA difference probably does not lead to a very different thinking. But different culture does.
Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old
by danieltillett on Friday December 13, 2019 @12:25AM
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We certainly know that different DNA leads to different thinking or else we would think like a chimpanzee. The question is does Neanderthal thinking live on in our modern culture. I have no idea, but it is a testable hypothesis.
Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old
by hutzlibu on Friday December 13, 2019 @04:00AM
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Surely does different DNA leads to different thinking. But when interbreeding is possible, differences might not be great ... much smaller than the cultural differences
Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old
by danieltillett on Friday December 13, 2019 @05:34PM
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That is a hypothesis, not something we know. Having three children of my own all very different to each other in thinking makes me doubt culture has much influence on how people think.
Well, genetically they were not much different, close enough for interbreeding.
But their mind ... and culture was probably very alien to us.