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Why one branch on the human family tree replaced all the others | Aeon Essays (aeon.co)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days 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?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It’s always violence

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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