• WanderingThoughts
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    Selection for juvenile traits – low aggression, openness to novelty and new people – likely made us more social, and produced our immature-looking skulls as a side-effect. Ironically, it may have been this sociability and low aggression that made modern humans so incredibly dangerous to these primitive Homo sapiens.

    So we partied the others to death?

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      It’s always violence

      more important is the fact that large tribes are better able to defend land – or take it.

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        In this case it sounds more like cats, infiltrating with cuteness instead of conquering with violence.