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Laziness May Have Contributed to the Decline of Homo Erectus
Smithsonian ^
| August 13, 2018
| Meilan Solly
Posted on 08/16/2018 6:43:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Early humans made stone tools out of whichever rocks happened to be lying nearby, ignoring quality in favor of convenience (Shipton et al.)
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posted on
08/16/2018 6:43:20 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Looks like a load.
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posted on
08/16/2018 6:44:13 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
Laziness and conservative tendencies
Oh, so they blame conservatism. Also our alleged past ancestors sedentary lifestyle; must have had too many modern conveniences. Poor Fred Flintstone.
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posted on
08/16/2018 6:45:55 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/16/2018 6:49:36 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(Yankeefa, cleansing America one statue at a time.)
To: Olog-hai
LOL
They dunno nothin.
Maybe the Homers smoked too much ditchweed and just couldnt get off the couch.
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posted on
08/16/2018 6:50:06 PM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
To: SunkenCiv
Actually, they died out because nearly all believed a wondering elder of the Algur tribe who preached that the Earth was overpopulated and that tool making was destroying the environment.
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posted on
08/16/2018 6:51:56 PM PDT
by
Rashputin
(Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
To: SunkenCiv
Homo Erectus. When reading that and hearing it in my mind, just why is it I hear Beavis and Butthead giggling non-stop?
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posted on
08/16/2018 6:52:12 PM PDT
by
EMI_Guy
("You have to slow down to go fast." - Kenny Roberts)
To: SunkenCiv
Homo Erectus replaced by Homo Couch Potatocus.
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posted on
08/16/2018 6:52:38 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
("When they go low, we go spy." - Hillary Clinton campaign slogan)
To: SunkenCiv
Maybe they invented smartphones.
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posted on
08/16/2018 6:52:57 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
To: SunkenCiv
“Thinking themselves wise, they become as fools...”
Because it’s so much smarter to walk a few hundred miles to make a flint knife to clean tonight’s dinner... Truly an extinction level choice by that stupid cave man.
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08/16/2018 6:53:20 PM PDT
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: Rashputin
Yeah, and then they all turned to homersexuality forgetting how to propagate their homer erections anymore.
Diversity man.
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posted on
08/16/2018 6:55:47 PM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
To: Rashputin
I see what you did there 😂😂😂
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posted on
08/16/2018 6:56:32 PM PDT
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Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
It's not so much that Homo Erectus was lazy...
...but he persistently was being told that if he was working for 4 or more hours that he should consult a physician.
To: SunkenCiv
"According to the authors of a new study published in PloS One, laziness may have precipitated the early humans' extinction, leaving them unable -- and unwilling -- to adapt to changing environments."
Potheads.
To: SunkenCiv
I can’t picture how this works with primitives? What happened to supposedly make them lazy?
Freegards
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posted on
08/16/2018 7:06:29 PM PDT
by
Ransomed
To: SunkenCiv
“”Early humans made stone tools out of whichever rocks happened to be lying nearby, ignoring quality in favor of convenience””
That seems to be a rather broad assumption. We have several large camps on the ranch and many smaller satellite camps and you see tools made from a variety of stone. Some of the best chert in the Permian Basin can be found here and in large quantities. As a flint knapper of over 40 years I certainly wouldn’t want to use my best collected material to make tools needed for hard work that will see allot of abuse. The larger worked pieces that to my eye looked like they were made for breaking bone are always of a lower quality material. It’s far more durable than the material used for finer points and blades. We have several outcroppings of a course grade Sugar Quartz, worthless for making points or blades but excels for making tools which see allot of abuse.
To: EMI_Guy
“why is it I hear Beavis and Butthead giggling non-stop?”
—
It got a giggle outta me.
To: SunkenCiv
Perhaps, but I suspect it may have had something to do with them being Erectus and not what to do with it.
To: SunkenCiv
If I lived in the heat of the Saudi Arabian desert, I would be lazy too.
Cold weather is where civilization got going. Then, when air conditioners arrived, all sorts of places got more hustle.
That’s one arm-chair scientist’s opinion.
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posted on
08/16/2018 7:15:58 PM PDT
by
poconopundit
(MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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