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Homo sapiens sapiens (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The only thing I can think of is that it's implying that as you get smarter you find cavemen more attractive and consider modern humans to be ugly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I thought obvious that the joke refers to the misconception some people host that 'homo sapiens' is a less evolved species than modern people, something we out-evolved.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is a common misconception? What education system is failing people this badly?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

In my experience, it's usually people trying to overexplain "homo sapiens sapiens" and "homo sapiens neanderthalensis" because they don't know anything about the topic at hand except those words. Subspecies on the character sheet has always been a technicality issue.

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