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Homo sapiens sapiens (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 65 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Homo = person/man

Sapiens = wise

What's this bullshit about?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

And it seems they didn't live in caves either.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The only thing I can think of is that it's implying that as you get smarter you find cavemen more attractive and consider modern humans to be ugly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I thought obvious that the joke refers to the misconception some people host that 'homo sapiens' is a less evolved species than modern people, something we out-evolved.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

‘homo sapiens’ is a less evolved species than modern people, something we out-evolved.

who the fuck is thinking this and why?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is a common misconception? What education system is failing people this badly?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

In my experience, it's usually people trying to overexplain "homo sapiens sapiens" and "homo sapiens neanderthalensis" because they don't know anything about the topic at hand except those words. Subspecies on the character sheet has always been a technicality issue.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Fake and Homo sapiens.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Are "homo sapiens sapiens" then "ugly ugly caveman" or "ugly caveman man"?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I suppose that :

  1. "ugly ugly caveman" -> homo sapiens neanderthalensis
  2. "ugly caveman man" -> homo sapiens sapiens
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Although, debatably, homo neanderthalensis is not a subspecies of homo sapiens, thus negating the need for a homo sapiens neandterthalensis and homo sapiens sapiens classification differentiation to exist, making homo sapiens always the modern man (who yes, is also an ugly caveman) and homo neanderthalensis the most recent full time ugly caveman.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

the most recent full time ugly caveman

This is immensely funny. On the other hand, I think there is indeed some debate about sapiens and neanderthalensis not being different species, thus the meme. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/are-neanderthals-same-species-as-us.html

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Where's the hetero sapiens, and the bi sapiens?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what this has to do with science...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is a physical anthropology taxonomy joke. That's absolutely a science.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

"but they don't live in... Ah nevermind".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Neanderthal stands for new man valley.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Homo sapiens= ugly cavemen

Homo sapiens sapiens = ugly city's men (us)