Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "" video.

  1.  @ferengiprofiteer9145  fire was not a genius invention. There's evidence our ancestors have been controlling fire for over 2 million years. Human generations were capable of producing a couple of geniuses if they produced at the same rate they do today. We have no evidence that is the case though. Nor do we have any evidence they were kinder to each other. If they were it would have been a unique time in our history. So doubtful.
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  2. Ancient people appeared to lack well developed abstract thought like modern humans possess. We do not know why that is. But we can be reasonably assured that was the case due to what they were capable of compared to what we can manage to do today. There are just different kinds of intelligence.
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  3. Maybe it was just too obvious not to conclude? I mean if you did not have a house where would you think you might live? People certainly knew of the existence of caves. They even knew that animals live in caves. If they thought our ancestors might have been little better than brute animals themselves the logic is simple.
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  4.  @LeoStaley  Flat Earth just is not trendy enough for some folks.
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  5. It was free real estate! Land did not have much value until the introduction of agriculture. Before then one trackless waste was much like the next. Although you can imagine our ancestors may have fought over things like watering holes in arid places. Or some may have just felt entitled to certain hunting grounds. Tribes may have regularly engaged in combat when they met? Many do not differentiate between strangers and enemies. On the plus side there were very few humans. Global population was just a few million for a very long time. https://arthuride.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/population-growth.gif
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  6.  @lamegoldfish6736  if you think about it our modern concept of value is an artificial construct. It is all tied to agriculture. Working land and investing in the future changed everything for us. Then land itself had a value we assigned to it. It is difficult for us to imagine the completely different mindset Stone Age people must have had. They just roamed and followed herds of animals. It is very far removed from how we live today.
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  7. He's Batman.
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  8.  @billyanderson321  it is not like they could take selfies back then. We do have forensic science today though.
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  9.  @billyanderson321  I think you read more into things than exists.
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  10.  @billyanderson321  face value is what most is worth. No more and no less. If anyone here has a warped agenda that's you. As you're the one that feels some need to buck common convention.
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  11.  @billyanderson321  when you live in a fire you have to expect to burn.
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  12. If a comet struck the planet you'd likely get buried in a cave. They can leave craters over a hundred miles across. The comet that took out the dinosaurs cracked the other side of the planet when it hit.
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  13. Tree nests do not fossilize very well.
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  14.  @minuteman4199  some people are very good guessers.
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  15. Back then humans formed tribes. No families of humans were going to make it very far in the world by themselves. Tribes certainly had chiefs. But any chief that wanted his fiefdom to be worth anything knew he had to take care of his people. So his cave would be your cave too.
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  16. Not all humans contain Neanderthal DNA. Only the offspring of humans that had contact with Neanderthals.
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  17. Ages do not end at specific dates. We further recognize that advances do not instantly propagate across the entire globe.
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  18.  @jerry2357  it depends on context what the term, "base metal" may mean. You gave the definition for what, "a base metal" is. In another context a base metal may be the metal a base is made out of. Or even a metal that is a basis for a larger amalgamation.
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  19. Hunter gatherers left behind very little art. So they were not all living high on the hog.
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  20. Now figure out a way to monetize your gift.
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  21. Lies put in the ground by the Devil to deceive!
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  22. How many humans do you think existed during the Stone Age? There were enough caves for all of them. Because there were not many at all.
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  23. Cave lions and bears are clothing and dinner too.
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  24. Most of our ancestors only ever knew winter. Because they lived during an Ice Age which lasted tens of thousands of years. This inter-glacial period we're living in right now is a fairly recent development. It's pretty much the only reason we were able to develop civilization. The Ice Age was so bad it almost drove us extinct. It is called the great bottleneck. Our species was reduced to less than 200 breeding pairs at one point. If there was an endangered animal list we'd have been on it. So you can say any that lived considered themselves lucky. Cave or no cave. It wasn't like it is today just with no houses. It was indeed a very different world than we know now.
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  25.  @LeoStaley  a rose by any other name still smells the same. Six of one's a half a dozen of the other. What's in a name?
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  26. It is a long trip for Europeans to go to Africa to do research. Although many still have.
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  27. Global human population in the Stone age was only a couple million. So neighbors were very sparse. You pretty much killed anyone you did not know on sight too. They had trust issues. It is not easier to build a hut than it is to burrow into the ground either. You only know how to build a hut because you have been exposed to related concepts. Ancient people had none of that knowledge. An animal can burrow into the ground. Can an animal construct a hut? Some have instinctual knowledge to construct dwellings. Beavers and birds come to mind.
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  28.  @4dbullshitpatroll6  furniture? In the Stone Age you just sat on your haunches. The modern concept of dedicated furniture is a rather recent development.
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  29.  @billyanderson321  Lucy existed before the Stone Age. She is considered more of a missing link. And as you've noticed she is still pretty missing today. But we do have enough of her to know she existed. About 3.2 million years ago. Lucy has been supplanted today by Ardi who lived 4.4 million years ago. You really wouldn't want to invite him to a family reunion either. Ain't he a charmer https://humanorigins.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/images/square/ramidus_illustration_KC_sq.jpg?itok=GhFr7cgN
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  30.  @billyanderson321  there's a reason stereotypes exist. It's because they're generally true.
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  31.  @billyanderson321  I am glad we could get that sorted out.
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  32.  @billyanderson321  when everyone else says one thing and you're contrary that doesn't always mean you're right.
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  33.  @brolohalflemming7042  the ice age ended long ago.
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  34.  @Ittiz  your idea of large and everyone else's differs. Just ice at the poles is not accepted as large enough to call this an ice age. Now if those glaciers reached down to Manhattan then it would be an ice age. Because that's where they were in the last ice age. Although there was a time when the entire planet was covered in ice too. Also an ice age. Now, not an ice age. We are in an inter-glacial period. It is called the Holocene.
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  35.  @Ittiz  you do know that inter means between, don't you?
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  36. How can you know Neanderthals possessed speech? Did one shout so loudly you caught the echo? I fail to see how one can dig sound up out of the ground.
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  37. I could ask the same of you. Just where do you get your information from? I do not think Neanderthals had their own space program. Or anything even remotely approaching that.
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  38.  @octaneblue6  but we have a space program now, so there.
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  39. ​ @octaneblue6  me. That's who. What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. Hitchens's razor
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  40. I bet they all saved 15% with Geico too.
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  41. Dinosaurs were not fake. Humans interacting with dinosaurs is fake.
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  42. It's the same as it is now. Always has been.
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