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We both do it because chimps and humans shared a common ancestor only 8 million years ago.
by crazydoggers 5mo ago
We both do it because chimps and humans shared a common ancestor only 8 million years ago.
- tuveson 5mo agoNo bonobo wars though
- jaeh 5mo agothere for sure are, but they are nsfw and will never be aired in a netflix documentation
- Nevermark 5mo agoThey use sex as a weapon. Their wars are legendary. They never give up. Never surrender. And the cycle never ends. Children of war. The end game of "the replacement theory" when everyone fully commits.
- dyauspitr 5mo ago8 million years is a drop on the geological time scale, but on a species scale that’s an eternity. We went from Neanderthals and Denisovans to sapiens in a fraction of that time.
- crazydoggers 5mo agoTo be clear, sapiens didn’t descend from neanderthals or Denisovans, our species lived alongside those and interbred with them. The common ancestor of sapiens and neanderthals was probably around 500,000 years, probably heidelbergensis. So half a million years is “short” but also still Homo, and something you would almost definitely identify closer to human than ape. Shared social structures and behaviors can last through much longer periods of time than 8 million years. For example take bees and ants sharing a common ancestor in the 100 of millions of years age.