Was just watching a TERRIBLE Youtube video, as if
that doesn't describe nearly all of them, this one on
Chimps. And apparently the popular belief is that
regularly have their babies snatched from them, if they
give birth right there in front of their little Chimp
neighbors, only to have them eaten...
Would any of the human populations have done so?
Now something strange about this is a long time ago
I noticed something about Chimps and Neanderthals.
The claim, see, is that female Chimps will sometimes
leave their little Chimp clan there and go join another one,
and this helps to maintain a healthy genetic diversity.
The same is said for Neanderthals.
So is this all just Wander Lust, or do the Chimps who run
off do so because of some trauma, and was this he same
for Neanderthals?
I'm just throwing this out there. Apart from the practice of
cannibalism, which many do associate with Neanderthals
at least at times, there's no reason to believe Neanderthals
were any more likely to eat babies than any other group.
Actually, cannibalism seems pretty well attested, going back
long before Neanderthals... so why not anyone else?
But it's been observed in Chimps and some people insist that
Chimps are a model for human development so... why not?
The Neanderthals seem like a better candidate to me BECAUSE
they occupied Europe, during the last glacial period, and they
would have known periods of scarcity where another mouth to
feed might be better viewed as the means to feed the mouths
you have...
Gross, huh?
LOOK AT ANCIENT ROME & GREECE!
They weren't exactly kind to unwanted babies, now were they?
So the only element we're adding here is the cannibalism, and
that was clearly a thing way-back-when.
Ideas?
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