September 2, 20241 yr 16 hours ago, LHookins said: Some people think of prehistoric people as little more than animals. Brutes. Savages. It ain't necessarily so. Yep, evolution works on very long time scales, not a few thousand years. 300,000 year old fossils and DNA have been found of humans anatomically the same as us. How different the soft squidgy stuff was in their heads isn't known and is much debated. Behavioral modernity appeared about 65,000 years ago, apparently.
September 2, 20241 yr Author Gary Larson should make a cartoon of paleoanthropologists in the distant future digging in ruins. And discovering that people in our time were using X-plane for entertainment 😕 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
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