[HN Gopher] Neanderthals Traversed Vast Distances ___________________________________________________________________ Neanderthals Traversed Vast Distances Author : FossilHominid Score : 45 points Date : 2020-03-04 19:15 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.sapiens.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.sapiens.org) | dahfizz wrote: | This is still nothing compared to the migrations of "modern" | humans, no? | | One of my favorite ideas about human nature is that we are | absolutely driven to explore. We walked all the way from | Mesopotamia across all of Europe and down to the top of South | America! Some ancient madlad hollowed out a boat and paddled to | Australia! Why would someone do that?? But we continue to do the | same thing trying to get to the moon, Mars, etc. It's a defining | feature of the human race. | | It's interesting that the neanderthals walked from Europe to | Asia, but it's nothing compared to our ancestors explorations. | Florin_Andrei wrote: | Maybe that, too. But any other species that had the same drive | could not have accomplished what we have. | | Our killer app is intelligence. Maybe cheetahs were also driven | to expand, but they were far less adaptable than us, so places | that were barriers to them were no obstacle to us. | aasasd wrote: | Here's a short but informative 'lecture' by anthropologist | Stanislav Drobyshevsky, which finally comprehensively answered | the myth of 'cavemen' for me. It's not about Neanderthals, but | still: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IihGveExaqU | | (English subs aren't stellar but they're there.) | | He mentions that territory from Siberia to Central Europe was a | well-trodden path in Paleolithic, and there's an example of one | person traveling from some sea to the centre of Europe. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-03-04 23:00 UTC)