"just learned about in-group out-group biases, and can't in good conscience interact with an out group until we've thoroughly explored and deconstructed our prejudices. The whole group is going through a training curriculum and we anticipate going to greet our neighbors within the next five years, certainly."
Very funny! Also so fascinating! Did they have some kind of strong cultural in-group/out-group values? A cultural prohibition of going too far from a certain location or crossing certain geographical boundaries? Did their knees hurt?? I can easily believe they quickly lost knowledge that anyone else existed. Makes me wonder if we have any idea of how far a typical Sapiens group roamed. The spreading-all-over-the-damn-planet thing does suggest a real drive to explore, but I can deeply relate to the Neanderthals' desire to just stay home if everything's good there and I do have Neanderthal DNA according to my parents' 23 and Me results, but apparently not from these guys since they never got busy with Sapiens!
Of all these quite reasonable questions, I think that "hurting knees" is by far the most likely. I know it's the major factor in my own life in reducing the urge to explore.
"just learned about in-group out-group biases, and can't in good conscience interact with an out group until we've thoroughly explored and deconstructed our prejudices. The whole group is going through a training curriculum and we anticipate going to greet our neighbors within the next five years, certainly."
Very funny! Also so fascinating! Did they have some kind of strong cultural in-group/out-group values? A cultural prohibition of going too far from a certain location or crossing certain geographical boundaries? Did their knees hurt?? I can easily believe they quickly lost knowledge that anyone else existed. Makes me wonder if we have any idea of how far a typical Sapiens group roamed. The spreading-all-over-the-damn-planet thing does suggest a real drive to explore, but I can deeply relate to the Neanderthals' desire to just stay home if everything's good there and I do have Neanderthal DNA according to my parents' 23 and Me results, but apparently not from these guys since they never got busy with Sapiens!
Of all these quite reasonable questions, I think that "hurting knees" is by far the most likely. I know it's the major factor in my own life in reducing the urge to explore.
Me too, thus it came to mind!