{"id":20425,"date":"2022-09-19T22:22:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T02:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=20425"},"modified":"2022-09-19T22:22:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T02:22:51","slug":"caveman-ancestors-and-woke-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/19\/caveman-ancestors-and-woke-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Caveman Ancestors and Woke Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

After yesterday\u2019s travel, today was a day of rest.\u00a0 I decided to look around for something fun to think about.\u00a0 I found an article from August that explored the relation of archaic humans to us and to each other<\/a>.\u00a0 A lot of it was a rehash of discoveries made over the last few years in Siberia<\/a> concerning Neanderthals and Denisovans.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve read about this, DNA analysis has shown that several of the fossils they found have mixed Neanderthal and Denisovan parentage.\u00a0 Even this discovery alone is revolutionary.\u00a0 But the story gets more and more complicated.\u00a0 Apparently modern humans cross-bred with both of these hominid cousins back before they went extinct.\u00a0 Apparently, all non-African humans have small but significant amounts of both Neanderthal and Denisovan genetic heritage.\u00a0 This is due to the fact that both these species left Africa before the dawn of Homo sapiens.\u00a0 Modern humans caught up with them in Eurasia.\u00a0 And also interestingly, there are three separate populations of Denisovans and they have each interacted with humans differently.\u00a0 One group has a more significant genetic residue among Australian aborigines and neighboring islanders than with any other human grouping.\u00a0 While the genetic trace of another Denisovan population is detected more strongly among East Asians.<\/p>\n

Then there are the other archaic humans who have not yet been shown to have left any mark on the human genome but survived to very recently, barely missing historic times.\u00a0 The diminutive species Homo floresiensis and Homo luzonensis lived in Southeast Asia and may have survived until as recently as ten thousand years ago.\u00a0 No DNA evidence has been recovered yet for these species but the way things have been developing I would be surprised if it didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

All of this stuff is fascinating just as science.\u00a0 But what it also does is open a window on the complicated history of the human family.\u00a0 By the standards of current biological science humanity is a series of populations that include varying genetic donations from different species.\u00a0 At the very least we are a hybrid species.\u00a0 And this is based on just the first few years of ancient DNA analysis.\u00a0 And if we were unafraid of outraging the always outraged, we would refer to human races as subspecies as we do with every snake, frog or mouse species that has local variants. \u00a0After all every hill in a rain forest is allowed to have a separate frog subspecies based on color or how many spots they sport on their backs.\u00a0 Either that or we should go the other way and eliminate subspecies from these other animals and just group all these creatures together.\u00a0 But that would wreak havoc with the endangered species grift that the government uses to restrict people from draining the puddles in their yards for fear of wiping out the nineteen-spot salamander that lives adjacent to the eighteen-spot salamander in the next puddle.<\/p>\n

But I digress.\u00a0 The point is that humans are in no way, shape or form homogeneous.\u00a0 Even in highly isolated populations people are individuals.\u00a0 And they differ in a million ways.\u00a0 Even within a family someone is smarter, taller, stronger, funnier or happier.\u00a0 The bigger the family, the more obvious this is.<\/p>\n

The fact that we haven\u2019t been able to come to terms with this at the global level is pathetic.\u00a0 This whole idea of equity is obviously dishonest.\u00a0 The idea that somehow a secret society of white supremacists is keeping down everyone else is moronic.\u00a0 What has happened is through propaganda and reverse racism we\u2019ve disincentivized the under-class from applying themselves at honest work.\u00a0 The fact that there are plenty of African Americans succeeding in various professions disproves the white supremacy trope.\u00a0 And allowing this lie to exist is horribly destructive.<\/p>\n

It occurred to me that if we found some corner of the Amazonian jungle where by some miracle of fate a last village of Denisovans had survived in isolation we would try to force them to become doctors, lawyers, engineers and tech company CEOs<\/a> in the carefully calculated demographic ratio.\u00a0 Even if they couldn\u2019t fathom what a CEO was.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a blindness that I assume is intentional.\u00a0 And now we\u2019ve extended it to such absurd ideas as allowing men to compete in women\u2019s sports to keep up the pretense that transgenderism is a real thing.\u00a0 Well, anyway, it was a good read.\u00a0 Back to the salt mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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