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Scientists find 7.2M-year-old pre-human remains in the Balkans

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The human evolutionary 'tree' is very tangled, and evidence exists for the emergence of homonim from Africa, some of which moved into Europe, and some of which could have then possibly migrated back to Africa. As sea levels rose and fell, new routes were forged or land disappeared, enabling all this back and forth. Homo Sapiens is a descendant of this tree, and emerged from Africa. So that has not changed. What they…

>So the potential explanation is that this or a descendant found its way to Africa, and then gave rise eventually to Homo Sapiens. given that Mediterranean dried out completely about 1M years later, back then there weren't 2 different things - Europe and Africa - like today, just a huge valley where may be a large part of our ancestors' evolution took place.

Wow, did not know that. The idea that the Mediterranean was a huge valley with some areas more than a mile below sea level is crazy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_salinity_crisis

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> I have all rights to be afraid of racist cops of different color. Especially if they're racist against you, of course you do. That's the point. Please see my reply to 'flukus's comment that is a sibling to yours. > I am not a woman so my chances of assault and murder are way higher... I was speaking primarily of domestic violence. If you give any kind of credence to the statistics about how under-reported that is,…

I am not sure I understand. Are you saying there is no racism against whites or it does not exist in the US so, in fact, I should not be afraid of anti-white racists?

I'm saying none of those things. I appreciate that you're not a native speaker of English, but I'm not sure how much clearer I can be, here.

Re: Scientists find 7.2M-year-old pre-human remains in the Balkans

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How on earth this title could be offensive? Why does it make you offended? For several years we were tracing the beginnings of mankind to Africa. Now there is another source in Europe. In the future other sources might be discovered. How is it offensive? What does it change for you?

This news being offensive to him might mean he is a racist. No sane person would take this title as offensive.

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Re: Scientists find 7.2M-year-old pre-human remains in the Balkans

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The title is misleading (as written on HN) because the meaning of "hominim" is more to do with what we, humans, and other hominim (like neanderthals etc) evolved from. See linked chart: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yEUEavwMSCE/ULtMp3e_cVI/AAAAAAAAAD... This isn't our specific species but rather whatever we and similar species evolved from. I'm absolutely no expert on the subject. I actually find the title offensive if I…

> I actually find the title offensive if I'm right Cry me a river.

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Your post itself is inciting, because you imply that those up-voting the post did so due to "their world views". I am sure you can think of other, less offensive reasons that are more likely explanations of the votes, like scientific curiosity.

Political correctness at its finest. European/American users voting for news, that can take some significance from Africa = offensive. And this is happening on the left-leaning site. Great.

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Because it gets used to paint a picture where white people are only successful because they were somehow privileged, which isn't always true. It's really quite racist actually, you are using skin color as the defining characteristic when socioeconomic status is far more relevant.

Your entire line of reasoning is borderline moronic. You don't like talking about white privilege because some white people feel like they don't get enough credit because they're white. Meanwhile people of color suffer from real racism, both colloquial and institutional. Sure, it's socioeconomic too, but that's because for many, they're 3 generations from having the right to representation and 5 from having any human…

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Your entire line of reasoning is borderline moronic. You don't like talking about white privilege because some white people feel like they don't get enough credit because they're white. Meanwhile people of color suffer from real racism, both colloquial and institutional. Sure, it's socioeconomic too, but that's because for many, they're 3 generations from having the right to representation and 5 from having any human…

> Every single black man who has "made it" in America still sits his child down before they Haha nice one!! Black kids don't get to spend time with their fathers. Feminists made sure of that.

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post #29

What is up with the resurgence of euro-pride among young white guys? I'm genuinely curious were it's coming from, it definitely feels like a new phenomenon in the last 2-3 years.

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