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Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old by danieltillett on Friday December 13, 2019 @12:25AM (#21779326)
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.
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Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old by hutzlibu on Friday December 13, 2019 @04:00AM (#21780147)
Surely does different DNA leads to different thinking. But when interbreeding is possible, differences might not be great ... much smaller than the cultural differences
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Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old by danieltillett on Friday December 13, 2019 @05:34PM (#21786251)
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.
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