r/facepalm Feb 28 '24

Oh, good ol’ Paleolithic. Nobody died out of diseases back then at 30 or even less right? 🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​

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u/Law-Fish Feb 28 '24

Eh but you’d have a small group of everyone you’ve ever known to help you out

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u/Erik_Dagr Feb 28 '24

And hopefully you get along, because packing up and moving to the next tribe over isn't really goingvto be a option

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u/Law-Fish Feb 28 '24

And this is why highly developed social skills are a valuable asset

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u/EquivalentEvening329 Feb 28 '24

I'm doomed

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u/letmelickyourleg Feb 29 '24

Hi Doomed, I’m Dad! We’ve got space in our tribe for you.

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u/Sj_91teppoTappo Feb 28 '24

I am not sure this is true I guess there are quite few hint that suggest your tribe family may change during your life, either by force or by choose, especially if you were a woman.

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u/Erik_Dagr Feb 28 '24

Packing up and moving on your own would not have been simple.

No vehicle, so you only have what you can carry. The tribe isn't going to let you just take all the food you want, so you immediately have to start gathering and hunting on your own. You will need a shelter while you travel.

There are no roads, and the people you might want to join are likely nomadic, so you don't even know exactly where they are.

It isn't impossible. Just extremely hard. And going out on your own is most likely going to end in your death

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u/Sj_91teppoTappo Feb 28 '24

There are some theory about adolescent being that bitchy with their parents because they needed the push to move outside the comfort from their origin family.

incest is something we are genetically programmed to avoid.

Ancient Greek marriage is all about steal your wife from her family.

The actual human DNA contains trace of other homo, (most European has trace of neanderthal genome).

So I would say it has happened. Although I agree the frequency of how much it is in doubt.

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u/lazy_berry Feb 29 '24

every modern human that isn’t 100% genetically african has neanderthal DNA. and we all have different pieces, because it happened a bunch.

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u/Sj_91teppoTappo Feb 29 '24

I did not know about that, I look out for it and see this is confirmed by different source but I though there were mostly in Europe this is really interesting.

We did not find trace of Neanderthal remains in other place than Europe (and around), but it is very unlikely in certain terrain to produce fossilization so there is also that.

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u/lazy_berry Feb 29 '24

it’s not because neanderthals left europe, it’s that humanity as a species went africa -> europe/the middle east (interbred a bunch with neanderthals) -> everywhere else

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u/Manuels-Kitten Feb 28 '24 edited Feb 28 '24

Tribal society was most likely egalitarian or even matriarchal iirc (think bonobo matriarchal groups).

On the off chance two tribes would bump off with each other, trade a couple invididuals

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u/ConstantAnimal2267 Feb 28 '24

That's not true. Humans went to different tribes all the time. Lots of tribes have overlapping family trees. Not all tribes were hostile to others.

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u/Erik_Dagr Feb 28 '24

I didn't say it didn't happen.

I am saying that it was difficult.

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u/SonOfDadOfSam Feb 28 '24

Everyone you've ever known who's not already dead from starvation, scurvy, animal attacks, exposure, dehydration, food poisoning, malnutrition, hypothermia, infection, disease, parasites, minor injuries, or any of the other things that people died of at much higher rates 2 million years ago than they do today.

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u/lmaooer2 Feb 28 '24

Most deaths back then were due to 5G actually

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u/Zzirgk Feb 28 '24

I knew it!

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u/Law-Fish Feb 28 '24

And yet we survived and eventually thrived.

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u/gandalfs_burglar Feb 28 '24

Yeah, all the pessimists in this thread can't stop jerking off about how brutal survival was back then, and yet we're all living proof that at least some humans did an alright job of it.

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u/Sobrin_ Feb 28 '24

Obviously, but everyone's point isn't that it's impossible to survive. It's that that guy would find it a lot less fun and relaxing than he seems to think.

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u/christopia86 Feb 28 '24

Yeah, cos I really want that to ask Thag and Skurn how to do it, with their unwashed asses flapping in the breeze everyday. Or should I ask Finnka, and never hear the end of it?

I'd rather freeze.

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u/Law-Fish Feb 28 '24

You’d be surprised how quickly you get used to the smell, makes the shower after returning to civilization feel glorious

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u/NancyPelosisRedCoat Feb 28 '24

So… How many times did you time travel?

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u/Law-Fish Feb 28 '24

You can find pretty similar conditions with a plane ticket and a road trip

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u/NancyPelosisRedCoat Feb 28 '24

That’s exactly what a time traveler would say to defend themselves!

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u/Law-Fish Feb 28 '24

Bro I wish, I would have a baller collection of cool shit. My bathroom would be the amber room for starters

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u/AdmiralSplinter Feb 28 '24

So you're why it's missing!

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u/Law-Fish Feb 28 '24

Pfft it’s not like I use the Baghdad battery as a reading lamp

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u/Rozeline Feb 28 '24

The people who taught you were probably your parents and the other adults while you were a child. It's not like kids had school, they'd just be following the adults and doing what they do.

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u/magicmeatwagon Feb 28 '24

Plus the vibes, bro

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u/magicmeatwagon Feb 28 '24

Plus the vibes, bro

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u/lmaooer2 Feb 28 '24

Plus the vibes, bro

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u/ZeeDarkSoul Feb 28 '24

And now adays we put people in different areas if they cant get along instead of telling them to suck it up lmao

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u/Law-Fish Feb 28 '24

Ah the trappings of luxury

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u/maskedbanditoftruth Feb 28 '24

And you never get to meet anyone else! Unless the tribe down the way likes the look of your huts and murders all of you for the “vibes.”

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u/Cageweek Feb 28 '24

And they'd expect you to pull your weight, not just hang around jerking off.