- BaroqueInMind ( @BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ) English49•20 days ago
Holy fuck this carving looks absolutely beautiful
- RBG ( @RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ) English39•20 days ago
What’s the meme here
- kamiheku ( @kamiheku@sopuli.xyz ) English13•20 days ago
It’s a screenshot of a Twitter post, that’s a meme right?
- Tlaloc_Temporal ( @Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ) English1•19 days ago
Well if we want to get pedantic, every unique thing passed around and spread is a meme. Jokes, art styles, idioms, words, greetings, most social behavior really. And you can go a step further and say diseases, species, even all of life is a meme.
And if there ever was a place to use this definition of meme it would be… LinguisticMemes, but this is a good second place.
- kamiheku ( @kamiheku@sopuli.xyz ) English2•19 days ago
Well if we want to get pedantic
Let’s! You are absolutely right, of course.
- elucubra ( @elucubra@sopuli.xyz ) English30•20 days ago
If I remember correctly, Homo sapiens sapiens was not only coetaneous with Mammoths, but we are widely considered to be one, if not the main cause of their extintion.
Also constructions like Gobekli tepe, with it’s carvings and decorations, predate the extintion of Mammoths by something like 6000 years.
- Malgas ( @Malgas@beehaw.org ) English13•20 days ago
Hell, there were still mammoths around when the pyramids at Giza were built.
Pygmy mammoths, on an island in northern Siberia, but still.
- Pips ( @Pips@lemmy.sdf.org ) English5•20 days ago
Count it!
- MonkderVierte ( @MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ) English7•20 days ago
Well, ice age ended and elephants still live.
- milicent_bystandr ( @milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ) English5•19 days ago
I… am so disappointed this didn’t go where, for a split second, my brain thought it was going.
Homo sapiens sapiens was not only coetaneous with Mammoths, but we are widely considered to be one
Chickens are dinosaurs - and humans are mammoths!!
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) English2•19 days ago
birds are the continuation of the theropod dinosaur lineage.
humans are the continuation of the early synapsid lineage also present at the time (which later gave rise to the early mammal progenitor).
when people say birds are dinosaurs they mean the lineage didn’t branch as much as it did for humans, which I think is more survivorship bias than anything.
- flerp ( @flerp@lemm.ee ) English2•19 days ago
People say birds are dinosaurs because every living thing is in every clade of it’s ancestors which means they are dinosaurs. They’re also a lot of other things from all of the other clades so they’re not saying that birds are just dinosaurs, but that they are part of Dinosauria and every other clade of their ancestors and so too will all of their descendants be.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) English1•18 days ago
Yes, one could say birds have skeletons in the same manner. I guess I’m just trying to understand what the opposing position before was the great revelation birds are dinosaurs was uttered. I’m perpetually confused by this expression.
- elucubra ( @elucubra@sopuli.xyz ) English1•19 days ago
Birds are dinosaurs. Humans are not mammoths
- EddoWagt ( @EddoWagt@feddit.nl ) English2•19 days ago
Don’t tell me what I am and am not
- Asafum ( @Asafum@feddit.nl ) English21•20 days ago
Weren’t there like full blown civilizations at that point? Kinda weird to refer to mammoths as if it were some stone age prehistoric period and be surprised that someone could craft something like this then lol
- Bob ( @MadBob@feddit.nl ) English8•20 days ago
I think the pyramids at Giza were a few millennia old at that point eh?
- ShinkanTrain ( @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ) English9•20 days ago
Not millennia, but several centuries.
- Bob ( @MadBob@feddit.nl ) English1•19 days ago
Oh, silly me, haha.
- Melatonin ( @Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English6•20 days ago
How much for the weight? I’ll take two.