• Hegar@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    Anatomically, for sure, but cognitively and behaviourally it’s harder to prove.

    For example did early homo have grammar? Many think the expansion of erectus, esp. over water, implies complex language but that’s hardly certain and there’s a lot of homo before erectus.

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      I’m just sayin’, if they’re not like us they don’t belong in the “like us” genus.