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Before levittowns and plywood shack homes (media.scored.co)
posted 1 day ago by CottonHill on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +46Score on mirror )
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whatlike_withacloth on scored.co
1 day ago 4 points (+0 / -0 / +4Score on mirror ) 1 child
>by several centuries

My man, by several millennia at best. They were in the stone age (similar to the natives in America) until the Europeans showed up... that's a difference of 4,000 years, *at best*. There was no indication that they were "just about to figure out metalurgy when we showed up," so really you're probably talking at least 50,000 years of difference, which is enough time to turn a Canis lupus into Canis familiaris. That's IF they were even on a trajectory to figure out metalurgy at all, which isn't guaranteed.

They are as different as wolves are from dogs, horses from zebras, etc.
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whatlike_withacloth on scored.co
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And I'm gonna reply to my own comment to say it almost seems cruel to try to integrate them with us and force them onto an evolutionary path that, frankly, might not even be available to them. Their genetic foundation might not be built to support where ours is leading. It's clearly not built to cope where ours is now.
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