Giraffes are as socially complex as elephants

Re:Giraffes are as socially complex as elephants by mellavora on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:30PM (#28079319)

Interestingly enough, homo sapiens was also really slow to adopt to change for a very very long time. Basic toolkit was unchanged for something like 1M years.

Then cam the Tonga event, homo sapiens population is reduced to less than a thousand individuals (perhaps much less), and suddenly we got creative.

Innovation wasn't a thing before that. It has been everything since.

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Re:Giraffes are as socially complex as elephants by Baeocystin on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:43PM (#28079494)

I was under the impression that the evidence for the Tonga event being the driver of a human bottleneck has weakened in recent years. Is that incorrect?

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Re:Giraffes are as socially complex as elephants by mmahemoff on Friday August 06, 2021 @12:50AM (#28083426)

Think you mean Toba volcano in modern-day Sumatra, Indonesia (https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/22/163397584/h...)

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