• Another nail in the savanna coffin

    From JTEM is so reasonable@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 24 15:22:00 2022
    So I have no excuses for this stuff. Chimps were
    talked about in another thread... this gets me to
    thinking about other stuff... next thing you know
    I'm wondering aloud about chimp troop sizes &
    I come across this relevant tidbit:

    : The home range of each troop varies from 18 to
    : 21 sq km in the forest and 100 to 200 sq km in
    : savannah

    https://ypte.org.uk/factsheets/chimpanzee/print

    Well. The sea can support a higher population than
    inland hunter-gathering. In the past, the sea would
    have been orders of magnitudes more productive.

    REMEMBER: Lobster fishing wasn't even a thing
    until later in the 1800s. Before that people just
    picked them up along the shore, like in tidal pools.

    Oysters?

    https://www.baltimoresun.com/food-drink/bal-a-brief-history-of-oysters-in-the-chesapeake-bay-20140603-story.html

    So what am I saying?

    POPULATION DENSITY!

    Aquatic Ape: Highest

    Arboreal: Middle

    Savanna: Lowest

    So savanna idiocy is saying that human evolution,
    the transformation of of our bodies into big brained,
    upright walking tool makers was all the result of
    LOWER genetic diversity!

    Our ancestors REDUCED their genetic variation, the
    size of their breeding population, and that's how they
    went from a Chimp to running after antelope...

    Wow. It's STAGGERING in the sheer weight of idiocy.




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