Are We The Product Of Genocide?

I forget the figure, but there are 16 Million or 60 Million, something like that. ..... direct descendants of Genghis Khan alive today

 

True, they were close enough to us that we could breed with them, but still different enough to be considered a separate species. They were shorter and stockier, had thicker skin and thicker bones to help keep them warm. Pound for pound they were probably twice as strong as a modern human.

 

Natural selection sees those who are best suited to adapt = survive
Whilst 'Worldwide' Genocide is a possibility - (and given to our more recent history cannot be dismissed) the likelihood is debatable - mass 'killing field sites' from that long ago of ancient times aside, it is more likely that Environmental climate and social changes in regard to humane development swung evolution in favour of the Homo sapiens race. - methinks

 

We are here

all of us

NOT, through the virtue of our ancestors.

but for the strength of their immune systems.

 

I came to wreck everything. And ruin your life. God sent me.

 

^
Good pot over there,

 

I believe ......
An alien spaceship crashed on earth and it's reactor was exposed. most of the primates mutated and devolved from the super intelligent aliens.
Leaving the various branches of primates alive today and in the recent past.

And there's as much evidence for my bit of madness as Darwin and the god botherers have for theirs (as in NONE).

 

Not really.

 

Now it's believed a volcanic eruption might have been responsible for the extinction of the Neanderthals, and that volcano is rumbling again. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/supervolcano-campi-flegrei-stirs-under-naples-italy/

 

Whenever a new species has no competition within a new ecological niche they can start fighting among themselves as a way to promote their rapid evolution. When the dinosaurs died, the species left fought among themselves as they invaded newly open ecological niches. There were perhaps 26 or more hominid species, but at some point the number dwindled dramatically often due to predation by cave bears and lions and, in fact, modern humans are considered inbred and the dna evidence indicates we came close to extinction with our numbers dropping to as few as a couple thousand.

Homo erectus lasted for almost 2 million years virtually unchanged and using the same crude stone tools the entire time. Physically, they were the same as us, but their heads were half the size of ours. Archaeologists have determined that making the leap to more advanced stone tools required a prolonged apprenticeship where the apprentice would supply the roughed out work for years for the master to complete and that process of extensive apprenticeship may explain the sudden doubling in size of the brain. Better tools had to pay for themselves, but developing them may also explain the development of language.

Neanderthals used pretty crude stone tools, but their brains grew larger anyway perhaps because they were physically more powerful and hunted large game. You need all that extra energy in order to support a larger brain and either it had to evolve from experience or by simply evolving to be more physically powerful and nature appears to have taken both routes. In fact, one tribe on the tip of South Africa appears to have evolved better tools faster by simply being in an ideal location that had plenty of shellfish and other available food. Modern humans are physically very weak, but our lack of a typical animal's strength is what allows us to have better fine motor coordination. For a two legged animal modern humans are amazing acrobats with extremely clever hands that can put any monkey's hands to shame. Neanderthals were riddled with diseases which we inherited, but our dna was complex enough to suppress a lot of the diseases, while retaining the good features.

For all I know the Neanderthals were wiped out by whatever also brought modern humanity close to extinction whether that was war between them or lions and tigers and bears or whatever.

 

matter of time scale. if you go back tens of thousands of years, a few hundred from that perspective might be called "all of a sudden". a few hundred is still several times longer on end then any one person ever lives.

many genocides have happened. none of them have ever needed to.

we will have grown up as a species when we stop inventing excuses for committing them.