Friday, May 31, 2019
Big promotion for the 'thals
UncommonDescent has been keeping track of the gradual promotion of Neanderthals from gorilla to human. It's amusing, but it's also a positive sign of decreasing theorigenic blindness among anthropologists.
The standard picture of Neanderthal = Fundamentalist Conservative Deplorable lasted for a century. The actual bones and cave paintings and tool remnants haven't changed, but without theory goggles the anthropologists are finally starting to reassess the remnants.
Now a new step in the promotion! (UD hasn't caught this one yet.)
Headline:
Declining fertility rates may explain Neanderthal extinction
Subhead:
Population modelling shows population could have dwindled to extinction due to demographics, not catastrophe
In other words, the Neanderthals became Episcopalians and Reform Jews and Unitarians. They became elite cultureless Sorosian secularists who saw no point in reproducing.
Does this mean the other subspecies like CroMagnons will now be demoted to Fundamentalist KKK TrumpHitler Deplorables?
Labels: Bemusement, Blinded by Stats
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