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If I remember correctly, Homo sapiens sapiens was not only coetaneous with Mammoths, but we are widely considered to be one, if not the main cause of their extintion.
Also constructions like Gobekli tepe, with it's carvings and decorations, predate the extintion of Mammoths by something like 6000 years.
Well, that's a new word on me. Thought spell check corrected contemporary.
Hell, there were still mammoths around when the pyramids at Giza were built.
Pygmy mammoths, on an island in northern Siberia, but still.
Count it!
Well, ice age ended and elephants still live.
I... am so disappointed this didn't go where, for a split second, my brain thought it was going.
Chickens are dinosaurs - and humans are mammoths!!
birds are the continuation of the theropod dinosaur lineage.
humans are the continuation of the early synapsid lineage also present at the time (which later gave rise to the early mammal progenitor).
when people say birds are dinosaurs they mean the lineage didn't branch as much as it did for humans, which I think is more survivorship bias than anything.
People say birds are dinosaurs because every living thing is in every clade of it's ancestors which means they are dinosaurs. They're also a lot of other things from all of the other clades so they're not saying that birds are just dinosaurs, but that they are part of Dinosauria and every other clade of their ancestors and so too will all of their descendants be.
Yes, one could say birds have skeletons in the same manner. I guess I'm just trying to understand what the opposing position before was the great revelation birds are dinosaurs was uttered. I'm perpetually confused by this expression.
Birds are dinosaurs. Humans are not mammoths
Don't tell me what I am and am not