[quote]spar4tee wrote:
I made it up to use less words. [/quote]
That this phrase appears in the comments on a Daily Mail article makes me a lot happier than it should
I’m sure they were more robust than your average couch potato.
Find me an ancestral human whose bones possess anywhere near the strength of my own and then I’ll be impressed.
I think there may be a certain genetic component to this study but it still doesn’t change the fact of physiological adaption to lifestyle and demand. A person can gain stronger bones, muscle, connective tissue, cardiovascular system, nerves, and the like with proper diet and training. There might be a mean average of total fitness capacity, and compared to the average joe of today our ancestral friends might have had slight edge, however I wonder what the results would look like when comparing the physiology of a highly conditioned athlete of today rather then your normal nine to fiver folks.
Ok, we keep seeing this.
Neanderthals and cro magnons had larger muscles and brains, but we won in the end bc we developed language, which kicks all kinds of ass in the long run.
Also, in regards to the brain becoming smaller, it is following the trend that wild dogs or dogs whose ancestors have always been wild, have larger brains than domesticated dogs. This trend follows other animals. But dont just focus on brainpower, bc domesticated animals can have a much much widder variety of behaviors than their wild cousins. You’ll never see a wild dog doing awesome things like a pet can do.
Also, your muscles require a good bit of brainpower bc your brain has to process for the movement, so larger body means that you would need a larger brain.
[quote]lumbernac wrote:
Ok, we keep seeing this.
Neanderthals and cro magnons had larger muscles and brains, but we won in the end bc we developed language, which kicks all kinds of ass in the long run.
Also, in regards to the brain becoming smaller, it is following the trend that wild dogs or dogs whose ancestors have always been wild, have larger brains than domesticated dogs. This trend follows other animals. But dont just focus on brainpower, bc domesticated animals can have a much much widder variety of behaviors than their wild cousins. You’ll never see a wild dog doing awesome things like a pet can do.
Also, your muscles require a good bit of brainpower bc your brain has to process for the movement, so larger body means that you would need a larger brain. Do, dont be too impressed.[/quote]
Cro-magnon is a direct ancestor. How did we beat them when we are from them?
[quote]lumbernac wrote:
Ok, we keep seeing this.
Neanderthals and cro magnons had larger muscles and brains, but we won in the end bc we developed language, which kicks all kinds of ass in the long run.
Also, in regards to the brain becoming smaller, it is following the trend that wild dogs or dogs whose ancestors have always been wild, have larger brains than domesticated dogs. This trend follows other animals.
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That’s not correct.
I’m not sure exactly what you mean but wild dogs can be trained and domesticated easily. Dingoes have been used to herd livestock. You can take a dingo pup and domesticate and train it quite easily. Wolves are a different story though.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]lumbernac wrote:
Ok, we keep seeing this.
Neanderthals and cro magnons had larger muscles and brains, but we won in the end bc we developed language, which kicks all kinds of ass in the long run.
Also, in regards to the brain becoming smaller, it is following the trend that wild dogs or dogs whose ancestors have always been wild, have larger brains than domesticated dogs. This trend follows other animals. But dont just focus on brainpower, bc domesticated animals can have a much much widder variety of behaviors than their wild cousins. You’ll never see a wild dog doing awesome things like a pet can do.
Also, your muscles require a good bit of brainpower bc your brain has to process for the movement, so larger body means that you would need a larger brain. Do, dont be too impressed.[/quote]
Cro-magnon is a direct ancestor. How did we beat them when we are from them?[/quote]
Being from something isn’t the same thing as still being something. And if the cro magnon people were successful, then they would have ultimately defeated the homo sapiens.
May I offer you this shovel?
[quote]lumbernac wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]lumbernac wrote:
Ok, we keep seeing this.
Neanderthals and cro magnons had larger muscles and brains, but we won in the end bc we developed language, which kicks all kinds of ass in the long run.
Also, in regards to the brain becoming smaller, it is following the trend that wild dogs or dogs whose ancestors have always been wild, have larger brains than domesticated dogs. This trend follows other animals. But dont just focus on brainpower, bc domesticated animals can have a much much widder variety of behaviors than their wild cousins. You’ll never see a wild dog doing awesome things like a pet can do.
Also, your muscles require a good bit of brainpower bc your brain has to process for the movement, so larger body means that you would need a larger brain. Do, dont be too impressed.[/quote]
Cro-magnon is a direct ancestor. How did we beat them when we are from them?[/quote]
Being from something isn’t the same thing as still being something. And if the cro magnon people were successful, then they would have ultimately defeated the homo sapiens. [/quote]
You’re missing the point. In order to beat something, you have to be competing with it in the first place. Cro-magnons were the first homo sapiens sapiens in Europe. They’re a human ancestor.
Related.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]lumbernac wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]lumbernac wrote:
Ok, we keep seeing this.
Neanderthals and cro magnons had larger muscles and brains, but we won in the end bc we developed language, which kicks all kinds of ass in the long run.
Also, in regards to the brain becoming smaller, it is following the trend that wild dogs or dogs whose ancestors have always been wild, have larger brains than domesticated dogs. This trend follows other animals. But dont just focus on brainpower, bc domesticated animals can have a much much widder variety of behaviors than their wild cousins. You’ll never see a wild dog doing awesome things like a pet can do.
Also, your muscles require a good bit of brainpower bc your brain has to process for the movement, so larger body means that you would need a larger brain. Do, dont be too impressed.[/quote]
Cro-magnon is a direct ancestor. How did we beat them when we are from them?[/quote]
Being from something isn’t the same thing as still being something. And if the cro magnon people were successful, then they would have ultimately defeated the homo sapiens. [/quote]
You’re missing the point. In order to beat something, you have to be competing with it in the first place. Cro-magnons were the first homo sapiens sapiens in Europe. They’re a human ancestor.[/quote]
You’re making assumptions on what are essentially unknowns or not accepted by the majority of the scientific community. What im referring to is what you are saying about the modern humans being descended from the cro magnon people when the exact subspecies isn’t really agreed upon right now.The link that the guy above has just placed, says that the original Basque people were certainly from the Cro Magnon, a direct ancestor of then anyway. But that’s just not enough to win this disagreement, I’m sorry.
Cro Magnon is homo sapiens.
It’s not another specie, nor a subspecie, it’s our specie.
Then why is it given a different scientific name? I thought that different scientific names meant different species.
Cro-Magnon is not the name of a specie. And it’s not a scientific name at all.
It’s the name of an european population of early modern humans.
And it’s not even a very good one.
Scientists often use a more generic term : European Early Modern Humans
when they do not speak about a specific archeological culture (like Aurignacian).
[quote]lumbernac wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]lumbernac wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]lumbernac wrote:
Ok, we keep seeing this.
Neanderthals and cro magnons had larger muscles and brains, but we won in the end bc we developed language, which kicks all kinds of ass in the long run.
Also, in regards to the brain becoming smaller, it is following the trend that wild dogs or dogs whose ancestors have always been wild, have larger brains than domesticated dogs. This trend follows other animals. But dont just focus on brainpower, bc domesticated animals can have a much much widder variety of behaviors than their wild cousins. You’ll never see a wild dog doing awesome things like a pet can do.
Also, your muscles require a good bit of brainpower bc your brain has to process for the movement, so larger body means that you would need a larger brain. Do, dont be too impressed.[/quote]
Cro-magnon is a direct ancestor. How did we beat them when we are from them?[/quote]
Being from something isn’t the same thing as still being something. And if the cro magnon people were successful, then they would have ultimately defeated the homo sapiens. [/quote]
You’re missing the point. In order to beat something, you have to be competing with it in the first place. Cro-magnons were the first homo sapiens sapiens in Europe. They’re a human ancestor.[/quote]
You’re making assumptions on what are essentially unknowns or not accepted by the majority of the scientific community. What im referring to is what you are saying about the modern humans being descended from the cro magnon people when the exact subspecies isn’t really agreed upon right now.The link that the guy above has just placed, says that the original Basque people were certainly from the Cro Magnon, a direct ancestor of then anyway. But that’s just not enough to win this disagreement, I’m sorry. [/quote]
What did I assume?
[quote]lumbernac wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]lumbernac wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]lumbernac wrote:
Ok, we keep seeing this.
Neanderthals and cro magnons had larger muscles and brains, but we won in the end bc we developed language, which kicks all kinds of ass in the long run.
Also, in regards to the brain becoming smaller, it is following the trend that wild dogs or dogs whose ancestors have always been wild, have larger brains than domesticated dogs. This trend follows other animals. But dont just focus on brainpower, bc domesticated animals can have a much much widder variety of behaviors than their wild cousins. You’ll never see a wild dog doing awesome things like a pet can do.
Also, your muscles require a good bit of brainpower bc your brain has to process for the movement, so larger body means that you would need a larger brain. Do, dont be too impressed.[/quote]
Cro-magnon is a direct ancestor. How did we beat them when we are from them?[/quote]
Being from something isn’t the same thing as still being something. And if the cro magnon people were successful, then they would have ultimately defeated the homo sapiens. [/quote]
You’re missing the point. In order to beat something, you have to be competing with it in the first place. Cro-magnons were the first homo sapiens sapiens in Europe. They’re a human ancestor.[/quote]
You’re making assumptions on what are essentially unknowns or not accepted by the majority of the scientific community. What im referring to is what you are saying about the modern humans being descended from the cro magnon people when the exact subspecies isn’t really agreed upon right now.The link that the guy above has just placed, says that the original Basque people were certainly from the Cro Magnon, a direct ancestor of then anyway. But that’s just not enough to win this disagreement, I’m sorry. [/quote]
Um… Isn’t Cro-Magnon just a name to describe early homo sapiens sapiens? As in just a name we gave pre-historic modern humans? They aren’t listed as a subspecies like Neanderthal.
My dougie prefers chrome magnums