For millions of years, humans were primarily hunter-gatherers, but recently, we have become spoiled.
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Yep, welcome to a ‘throw away’ world where we throw everything away!
You shoulda seen me yesterday ripping apart my son's bubble gun to fix it so I didn't have to toss it out. 😂
Feels good to get rid of stuff, to have some routine meals, to take time to simply look at the room or garden without thinking of things to do to it.
this is blatantly incorrect. the first humans are commonly understood to have appear only 300,000 years ago. not millions. additionally, you can hardly consider the agricultural revolution "recent"
please do some fact checking before making erroneous claims
It often happens that we humans, aka Homo sapiens, frequently forget about our ancestors, Homo habilis and Homo erectus, who lived on Earth for millions of years.
Regarding the second statement, that is debateable.
However, significant milestones in the commercialization of the food supply can be traced back to the Industrial Revolution, which began in the late 18th century.
Correct me if I am wrong!
sure, but those ancestors are not "humans". only homosapiens are typically considered human. if you instead qualified your statement with "humans and their common bipedal ancestors were hunter gatherers for millions of years" then it would be accurate. reading your original statement as is, however, it is incorrect.
They all come from the hominin lineage.
The earliest known species of the genus Homo is Homo habilis, followed by Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis, and eventually Homo sapiens.
The word "human" is not even an actual scientific term.
On what basis you're fact checking me, British English and American English? There is some debate about the definition of "human," but it is not a scientific debate.
That's why most of the books refer homo sapiens as anatomically modern humans.
And you're literally fact-checking a god damn meme. This is such a pseudo-intellectuals behaviour.
not the meme, I agree with the meme. only had an issue with the caption. we can argue semantics and scientific literature all you like, but in British or American English "human" usually refers to the people we see all around us, the ones that make up modern society, homo sapiens.
Here are some examples of some prominent scientists and archaeologists who have called Homo habilis and Homo erectus humans:
Louis Leakey: In 1975, Leakey called Homo habilis "the first human." Leakey argued that Homo habilis was the first species to make and use stone tools, which he saw as a defining characteristic of humanity.
Richard Leakey: Richard Leakey, Louis Leakey's son, also called Homo habilis "the first human." In his book "The Making of Mankind," Leakey wrote that Homo habilis was "the first member of our own genus, Homo."
Donald Johanson: Donald Johanson, the discoverer of the famous Lucy skeleton, has also called Homo habilis "the first human." In his book "Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind," Johanson wrote that Homo habilis was "the first species that we can confidently call human."
Mary Leakey: Mary Leakey, Louis Leakey's wife, has also called Homo habilis "the first human." In her book "Olduvai Gorge," Mary Leakey wrote that Homo habilis was "the first species in the genus Homo."
Tim White: Tim White, an American paleoanthropologist, has also called Homo habilis "the first human." In his book "Pleistocene Hominid Evolution in East Africa," White wrote that Homo habilis was "the first species in the genus Homo to have a brain size comparable to that of modern humans."
You learnt something new today, have a great time.
indeed. I also learned to remember that the line of what is human and what is not human with regards to our evolution is very much blurred. evolving and becoming what we today call homo sapiens was not an instantaneous event, but rather a process that occurred across our whole population.
while I still think it is a bit disinformative to say "humans had been hunter gatherers for millions of years", I do not think it is untrue to say that humans have been hunter gatherers far longer than we have been anything else.
the language we use to talk about these things is certainly not precise enough to convey exact meaning within a few sentences.
if this isn't an AI-assisted response, I'm very impressed with the write up.
seems far too formulaic and well-backed to be written by you in such a short time.
totally okay with being wrong on this, but the response's tone just gives me GPT vibes
It's literally just one Google search away, you didn't even Google before "Fact check" & I don't think you still get it.
Let me put it in context, last time!
I cannot explain in words how wrong you were to make that call. Anyone who has read any (literally any) book about human evolution understands that you can call both homo sapiens and lineages "human."
Nearly every book even "sapiens" specifies in first few lines whether they are referring to the entire lineage as "humans" or just Homo sapiens.
The top two names in this list are Louis Leakey and Richard Leakey are among the greatest names in evolutionary biology.
Their mentioned books are literally the holy grail of evolutionary biology. Google it!
Louis Leakey: The Making of Mankind
Richard Leakey: The Origin of Humankind
You were wrong and you still haven't corrected it.
"The word human can refer to all members of the Homo genus, although in common usage it generally just refers to Homo sapiens, the only extant species. The name "Homo sapiens" means 'wise man' or 'knowledgeable man'."
Sorry I looked at your meme and interpreted it using the common useage of the word "human", instead of interpreting it from the context of evolutionary biology. my bad for thinking you were using it in it's common sense, because you posted it alongside a meme. humans in the common sense have existed for roughly 300,000 years. humans in the "homo genus" sense have existed for millions.
maybe next time specify that you are using a very niche interpretation of the word "human" next time so troglodytes like me don't misunderstand your very well researched lexicon
cry some more about it
so if you want to say hominim, and that's what you mean to say, then say it.
say what you mean and mean what you say
I agree with you on the second point, but if we continue with that thinking, then it's not unreasonable to say the the "spoilage" began with the advent of agriculture
I don't want to explain this here. Just do one Google search.
There are hundreds of books that make a case for this exact theory, written by people who have dedicated their entire lives to understanding the Industrial Revolution and its impacts. You just woke up one day and decided to dismiss everything? Wow, you are completely delusional.
I am 22 years old. What is your age?
I'm not dismissing. I'm agreeing that the industrial revolution had dire consequences for the human race. our boy Ted Kaczynski knew that a long time ago.
im adding on top of that and saying if the industrial revolution had consequences, then then surely the advent of agriculture had dire consequences as well. we know this to be true. as you say, it's in the literature
I'm 21 so not unlike yourself
Fact Check:
first humans appeared only 300,000 years ago by most estimates.
agricultural revolution was 12,000 years ago which is hardly recent. industrial revolution is more recent
think and read before you post
If people were always felt satisfied and that they had enough and didn't want any more, we would never have left the hunter gatherer stage.
I don't think we will ever be satisfied. It seems like it's ingrained in our evolutionary behavior to constantly conquer more and more.
