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cthulu2016

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2. And not just those two

Reply to Curtland1015 (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 12:13 PM

Aug 2012

We (homo sapiens) killed off every hominid species in the world.

We have chimps. Why don't we have anything more human-like than chimps? There's a big gap there that has been filled time and again, yet nothing in between survived.

We do not tolerate competition.

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We are domesticated animals [View all] cthulu2016 Aug 2012 OP

SLIGHTLY off topic, but isn't it crazy that there used to be a different species of "man"... Curtland1015 Aug 2012 #1

And not just those two cthulu2016 Aug 2012 #2

Twenty-two species, by current estimates bhikkhu Aug 2012 #11

There's killing and then there's killing cthulu2016 Aug 2012 #13

All this probably occurred long before modern humans existed 4th law of robotics Aug 2012 #3

Actually, it happened when we invented agriculture. Odin2005 Aug 2012 #5

Do you have a link for that? 4th law of robotics Aug 2012 #6

We have always been social cthulu2016 Aug 2012 #8

Thom Hartmann has speculated that ADHD is a relic of before we domesticated ourselves. Odin2005 Aug 2012 #4

We the sheeple. n/t Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #7

. cthulu2016 Aug 2012 #9

We are sausages with eyes slackmaster Aug 2012 #10

That's rather beautiful cthulu2016 Aug 2012 #14

Some just love the domesticity thing. Octafish Aug 2012 #12