Arguably every species in the Homo genus has “everything we think of as human,” because otherwise they’d be in Australopithecus or Paranthropus instead.
Arguably every species in the Homo genus has “everything we think of as human,” because otherwise they’d be in Australopithecus or Paranthropus instead.
Hegar@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Anatomically, for sure, but cognitively and behaviourally it's harder to prove.
For example did early homo have grammar? Many think the expansion of erectus, esp. over water, implies complex language but that's hardly certain and there's a lot of homo before erectus.
angrystego@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There must be a no homo joke in there somewhere.
I’ll see myself out.
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m just sayin’, if they’re not like us they don’t belong in the “like us” genus.