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That kinda sounds Diamondian. We already had a professional biologist take apart that aspect of his theory on these forums as well. I think it's very unfair to assume that just because one was domesticated and the other wasn't, that one was less violent or of better temperament. We have very...

On what do you base your assertion that the aurochs was a more "docile" animal than the Cape Buffalo? Because last I checked, they were extinct before their behavior was well recorded.

Well, I'm thinking some time relatively recently, like maybe Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene. It would be really nice to be able to read that paper. I HATE academia. A decrease in animals that feed on them could see a lot of butterflies. When I was on the Speculative Evolution forums I...

Do they serve any other purpose than to make Africa a shithole? I was trying to look into their ecology, and all I could find were some probably very useful college papers on them that I would have to pay to get access to. Do they have an important role in Africa's ecology? If so, what is it...

You asked about the climate in Siberia during the Weichselian Glaciation. I said that it was "utter bird shit". Siberia seems to have gone from being lush green forests up to its Arctic Coast to being either under an ice sheet or a subarctic desert steppe (prime saiga habitat) along with much of...

Oh yes, they will be. Perhaps even more so, as the neanderthals will hold out in the Middle East for quite some time. EDIT: I had actually thought of both East Asians (at least as far as Siberia through China/Japan are concerned) as being Caucasian as well as Europeans, with epicanthic folds...

Ha. For a minute I was like: "St. Kilda, where the fuck is that?" I'm used to hearing it called Hiorta. But I had thought that the typhoid broke out after a bad harvest. I would say just make the harvest good.

'Twas utter bird shit my friend. I'm almost positive they moved north during a warm period, but this X Woman of which only a tooth and finger bone fragment have been found lived about 40,000 years ago during the Weichselian Glaciation about 19,000 years before the last glacial maximum. So they...

So do Dachshunds and yet, people still adore them as pets...

Since I'm thinking about them either going extinct or being severely reduced (which of course will have severe consequences on Sub-Saharan African wildlife), I read up on how the transfer of trypanosomiasis works in them. Apparently, there are various different species of trypanosomes that can...

Ummm.... what? There is too much of this text language stuff going on in this forum. AFAICT? What does that mean? lol. I'm sorry man, I just barely got my first cell phone 2 years ago and didn't do a whole lot of texting until about a year ago. While we're at it though, what do IMO, TTL, and ASB...

Ummm... I can give you that, except I think we can move the date to around 4,000 years ago with the Bantu expansion. Although they also had a much wider range during earlier times, particularly during the Wet Sahara period of the early Holocene. While the Bantu expansion might not have been...

So I have seen some very brief suggestions about their domestication on this forum but I haven't been able to find any kind of serious discussion. If there is, could someone link me to the thread? If not, why would you guys say these animals were not domesticated OTL? They behave very similarly...

Oh, ok. Well thank you then. Sorry. I recently came from the Speculative Evolution forums. There was a specific moderator there that trolled my topics and loved to bicker. His points were often pretty bad too... Anyways, I should get back to assuming that people who post in my topics aren't...

Ha, thanks. Here's the next update, concerning the domestication of dogs. The Domestication of Dogs: Humans Invade Europe Neanderthals never particularly liked wolves, or any other predator for that matter. While they did not actively engage in hunting other predators to eliminate...

Thank you. I'm glad to see somebody liked it. There is of course room for them, but I'm not sure where. If my POD were any sooner, I would try to make a palce for Homo erectus as well. I just don't think that having their societies marginalized by the modern day is totally implausible. I had...

Good question, one that anthropologists haven't been able to answer, since the general consensus based on their genetic diffusion is that they were widespread in Asia, and yet native Americans don't appear to have intermixed with them. Also, they're not 'walking' east, they're rowing east...

His initial goal was remaining in control of Gasconha, but he has established his dominance south of the Loire, because Richard doesn't want to expend his forces and risk his new crown trying to bend him, and he knows he can't do it with both Breith and Gasconha and Tolosa. Just as well...

What are you guys' thoughts on alternative migration routes to the Americas? The denisovans have used the Bering Strait, the neanderthals got there by accident, is it possible for humans from the Pacific Coast of Asia to migrate by sea, or perhaps for some sort of a maritime culture to develop...

I read that... A lot of anthropologists however seem to be very unconvinced that those tools are from modern humans. It's part of the whole debate about the Mousterian, the Chatelperronian, and the Aurignacian and who started what. So in this in timeline, we're going to posit that the...