Re:Fourteen Discoveries Made About Human Evolution in 2022
by version_five on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @06:43PM
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I'd suspect that research (and especially pop culture summaries of research) always conveniently reflects current trends. The way to get mass attention is to be in line with some message that is popular or advantageous to promulgate. The research is probably legit, it's just never the whole story, and so we get the summary that tells us are ancestors lived in alme hipster paradise until somehow modern Europeans screwed it all up. 50 years from now it will be some different version.
Re:Fourteen Discoveries Made About Human Evolution in 2022
by verisimi on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @06:49PM
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yes - I understand that could be it.
But, I have come to think it is the other way. That the historical/scientific research is provided to steer the desired trends in the right way.
Re:Fourteen Discoveries Made About Human Evolution in 2022
by karmakurtisaani on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @11:08PM
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There most likely isn't anyone to tell researchers what to publish in order to steer the "desired trend". Suggesting otherwise is frankly ridiculous.
Ok - so meat eating wasn't a big deal in the dim and distant past (scientists say).
But beer was. And cooked food.
Despite not eating all that much meat, humans still exterminated the megafauna. We're always doing this apparently.
Dogs weren't related to wolves, but they want to find that connection.
So, our ancestors were almost vegan, beer guzzling, dog loving folk, who went around killing all animals anyway.