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Why one branch on the human family tree replaced all the others | Aeon Essays (aeon.co)
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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Selection for juvenile traits – low aggression, openness to novelty and new people – likely made us more social, and produced our immature-looking skulls as a side-effect. Ironically, it may have been this sociability and low aggression that made modern humans so incredibly dangerous to these primitive Homo sapiens.

So we partied the others to death?

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s always violence

more important is the fact that large tribes are better able to defend land – or take it.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In this case it sounds more like cats, infiltrating with cuteness instead of conquering with violence.