[HN Gopher] Neanderthals Traversed Vast Distances
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       Neanderthals Traversed Vast Distances
        
       Author : FossilHominid
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2020-03-04 19:15 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | dahfizz wrote:
       | This is still nothing compared to the migrations of "modern"
       | humans, no?
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       | 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.
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       | 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
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       | (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.
        
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