#the human

Hey Error, is there anyone you're acquainted with that you don't absolutely despise?

“As the story goes, other species had evolved from our common Homo erectus ancestors a little earlier than us during those primordial periods, and they had done so in Ice Age Europe and Western Asia. One set was Homo neanderthalensis. This species used to be presented in popular culture as rather stupid cave dwellers, but their depiction was radically “humanized” upon the discovery that they had to have been “white” in the sense of light complexioned and straight-haired. They were physiologically different from our species in many ways that contradict popular portraits. Instead of huge male oafs with clubs over their shoulders dragging the female members of their species along the ground by their hair, they turn out to have been short, stocky creatures with long biceps and short forearms, a skull governed by a very large face and a larger brain than Homo sapiens sapiens, very dense bones, and a variety of adaptations to retain heat, such as compactness, a very large nose, and white or very pale skin. They made tools and survived in Europe and Asia till about 20,000 or 30,000 years ago. Some of our ancestors entered Europe and Western Asia about 40,000 years ago, which meant that for a time they lived alongside the Neanderthals, but the latter species soon died out, and debate rages today on whether they were absorbed by those early Homo sapiens sapiens into a new species (“us”) or were rendered extinct under pressures of environment or conflicts with our ancestors.[31] Much evidence, the most compelling of which is the absence of neanderthal DNA in most subsaharan Africans and a tiny presence of Neanderthal and another species— Denisovans—in everyone else, suggests the latter.[32] With regard to the continued story of members of our species who went into Europe and Asia, their migration stimulated a morphological change in their descendants. It was not only the severe cold that posed a threat to those bands of human beings who settled in such challenging regions, but also the effects of environments governed by limited sunlight. Melanin, which was great protection from the sun, becomes a liability in the North, where it would inhibit reception of vitamin D, which comes from the sun. By contrast, living along the equator posed a different problem: enough vitamin D but too much sun. In the north, absence of enough vitamin D led to rickets in those who had too much melanin. Lighter skin, which was a liability in the southern regions, became an asset in the North, and those individuals began to thrive.[33] The upshot of this story, which is the prevailing story of human evolution and subsequent morphological differentiation, is that the physical features that we have come to associate with whiteness were not always apparent in our species. Such features, and consequently the people we associate with them, have only been around for probably 8,000 years or less. What this means is that the operative conditions of identity in historic inquiry that have dominated our studies of human beings should be radically changed, for those are built upon the question, “How did black people come about?” when in fact they should pose the opposite question: “How did white and other light-skinned peoples come about?””

... Hello? Are you five still around? I'm sorry you've been left in the dust for so long. - ❤️

Wait, so if I can’t punch rowen, then is it possible to get ahold of a gun, for uh, personal reasons?