#neaderthal

[nonbinaryskulls]

WHO IS DRINKING WARM EGGNOG

Forgot the word for Eggnog and kept trying to say Nutella????

[anarchomitsumi]

monday recap:

modern history midterm. history of a territory that's new to me too. questions will be weird and hard af as always with modern historians. which means i will die. i have 40 pages worth of blocks of text in 11 font for notes that are not even coherent.

prepare debate about the possible divide of living spaces + art production in iberian neaderthals and sapiens and how it mightve affected the LMP-EUP transition. for which there is very little direct academic production and I need to extrapolate it myself from reading a thousand dig reports in english.

choose book for contemporary his, read a bit and come up with a historiographical question to write my final essay on. prepare a 5 min presentation about it and rehearse it.

study for language exam on tuesday

and thank God my prof moved one of our assignments or i would've had to write a final paper on the LMP-EUP transition too

[gogglemouse]

"This Vote Is Legally Binding"

"Someone always says it, whenever it comes up: 'I guess I'm just no allowed to talk to anyone anymore!' Well. Yes. It is my duty to inform you that we took a vote all us women and determined that you are not allowed to talk to anyone ever again. This vote is legally binding. Yes, of course, all women know each other, the way you always suspected. (Incidentally, so do Canadians. I'm just throwing that out.) We went the into the women's room at the Applebee's on the corner of 54 and all the others streamed in through the doors into that endless liminal space, a chain of humans stretching backward heavy skulled Neaderthal women laughing with New York socialites, Lucille Ball hand in hand with Taung child. We sat around in the couches in the women's room (I know you've always been suspicious of those couches) and chatted with each other in the secret female language that you always knew existed. Somebody set up a console-- the Empress Wu is ruthless at Mario Kart and Cleopatra never learned to lose and a woman who ruled an empire that fell when the Sea People came and left no trace can use the blue shell like a surgical instrument. Eventually we took the vote. You had three defenders: your grandmother and your first-grade teacher and an Albanian nun who believes the best of everybody. Your mom abstained. It was duly recorded in the secret notebooks that have been kept under the couch in the Applebee's since the beginning of recorded time. And then we went back to playing Mario Kart and Hoelun took off her bra and we didn't think about you again except that I had to carry this message. So anyway good luck with that it's just as you always said it was. Hush now, no talking, hush." -T. Kingfisher, Jackalope Wives

[spacerangersam]

a little hc i have is that robin headbutts to show affection but doesn’t fully comprehend that human’s heads are just a bit more delicate than his neaderthal one and so just keeps knocking people down with the force it

[emptymanuscript]

Today's extremely minor annoyance.

I have trouble figuring out how to count years.

Which means I am never entirely sure what anniversary or day count something is.

Like, is it my 16th or 17th wedding anniversary coming up in a few months.

I can tell you the date I got married. I can tell you the date we got together. Real easy to look up today's date. But then I run into trouble.

If I was married in 2007 and it's 2024, then I've been married for 17 years ish. But it is BEFORE the month, so does that mean I have been married for 16 years and it is GOING to be the 17th, or that this is the 16th year and it is going to be the 16th anniversary?

Do you count from 0 or 1?

Like 2007 is the year, right?

So the first anniversary would be 2008, right? Which I think means this is the 17th anniversary. And I have currently (since it is before the date) been married for 16 years.

I have this same trouble for EVERYTHING. How old will I be on my birthday? I dunno. Ish. How old will my wife be on hers? I dunno, three years younger than me - and does that include a zero??

Math just isn't quite natural for me.

I think I vaguely remember the very first time I read the bit about how innumerate the "alien" species (They were Neaderthals, so exceptionally heavy quotes there) is in my favorite book. And I was like, "same, fam."

One of my more embarrassing moments in school was being downgraded into my own individual math class to (re)teach me addition.

Hmmph.

And yet I love spreadsheets.

... maybe this is WHY I love spreadsheets XD

1+1 =

2!

[nicky-if]

Can I change my appearance in the body path?

Do you mean like shapeshift? Then no. You do become a hulking neaderthal on that path though.

[swagging-back-to]

making another fix it headcanon masterlist because i have more thoughts about voltron

obviously first up is NO LION SWITCHING. if/when shiro fucking DIES then the black lion just goes dormant again. voltron isnt seen until he (kuron) is retrieved and he flies black again.

they go back to earth much much sooner than in canon. it makes no sense to be like 'yeah it's so far away'------THEY ARE IN A SHIP THAT IS CAPABLE OF JUMPING FROM ONE SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE TO THE OTHER IN THE SPAN OF SECONDS!!!!! the paladins KNOW that the galra know about earth, know the paladins come from earth, and know the galra are AT EARTH. they KNOW that human technology doesnt compare to even some the most primative alien tech--let alone the galra. and seriously as if they cant spare a few days to go back to earth to set up precautionary defenses and maybe to get supplies the humans can use??? As if it would hurt their preformance to have things from earth thay would make coping with the literal war easier. the galran invasion of earth and most of the population dying wouldve been prevented if they simply went back to earth even for a couple days.

the war against haggar and zarkon lasts much longer than just a few months to a year. they were ruling for ten thousand years. they conquered most of the UNIVERSE and have the resources and power to show for it. i do not care how strong voltron is--it would take down two empire leaders in a few months. there are human wars that have lasted longer than that even when the firepower is relatively the same for both sides. the fight against lotor would take a similar amount of time, maybe even longer because he tries to play the long game by double crossing them (mostly alluras gullible ass). and even after all three of the royal family is dead, the empire has been in control for TEN THOUSAND YEARS. the control they have over their colonies is so strong some of them probably dont even know it's propaganda. they dont know any other history besides the galran empire. imagine the species that evolved during those ten thousand years. their entire species knows no other reality besides the galran empire. and if the empire treats them somewhat acceptably, or even if they just convince them that life outside the empire is far worse (like north korean propaganda) the fight against small clustered of loyal followers and soldiers would take decades at LEAST. voltron would not be retired until the team is in their 40s or 50s--at the earliest.

the reason humans and alteans look so similar is because they technically share the same genes. the change between neaderthals and homoerectus and homo sapiens is that humans have altean dna given by altean refugees fleeing the emerging galran empire. the reason humans have round ears and no markings or shape shifting is just because the altean dna was introduced so long ago that those alien features have gone dormant. they were one of the most diplomatic space faring species, it's almost impossible that all alteans (excluding lotors weird zoo) were on altea when it was destroyed. there were probably many out on diplomatic missions that learned of zarkons attempt to erradicate them and fled to isolated areas in the universe, such as earth.

their underarmor suits ARE NOT LIKE TIGHTS THEYRE A SLAP ON DEVICE THAT THEN MATERIALIZES THE SUIT AROUND THE BODY. think of the mamoran masks but for your entire body. the canon suits are soooooooo inconviencing and make no sense at all. why would a species that has invented LITERAL WORMHOLE TECHNOLOGY not have more ergonomic armor???? (i have many ideas of where this slap on device could go. maybe as a choker around the neck? or as a wrist band? it could also just be stuck to a random place like the chest or leg.)

[kissingagrumpygiant]

I'm sorry...Neanderthal fetish??

so sorry that happened to you and your OCs genuinely

they had their entire blog filled with pseudo-science neaderthal skull fetish doused with racism and were basically just posting photos of white women with like. big/hawk noses and talking weirdly about their features and ethnicities like ehuhhgrhgr sick to my stomach never seen shit like that in my LIFE

[paragonrobits]

i’ve been doing Exalted character growth simulation AND now i was just watching some people react to Primal episodes and suddenly i was seized by the compulsion to come up with a character inspired by Spear the neanderthal in an Exalted vibe and after initially contemplating a mutated human that is from a remnant of a human-based soldier variant Exalting as a Zenith Solar, i thought about neaderthal vibes and now im thinking about an awakened elder Dragon King (Anklok, I think) who was sealed away before the Primordial War and has awakened into a terrifying and strange world less dangerous than what he remembers, his people either gone or faded away into mindlessness, and the curious species his people he periodically saw during his battles in the vast desert of his homeland have taken over the world with horrifying levels of cruelty and inhumanity

(actually now i’m thinking about incorporating him into the Circle I’ve been ideating for a bit)

[the-graves-family]

Aaron knows Italian, you say?

Sei la più grande stronza che abbia mai incontrato 💖

Sure, his grammar may need some work, but he worked in enough kitchens with rough Italian chefs to know what insults sound like.

"Che minchia stai dicendo? È stronzo, non stronza, puttana, che sono un uomo. Impara a insultarmi come si deve, pezzo di merda. Non posso credere di sprecare il mio tempo con uomini di Neaderthal come voi. Vattelo a pigliare in culo."

[mercurialbadger]

Sousou no Frieren is this except the Neaderthal man is a foot fetish ADHD elf.

I've had a hard time articulating to people just how fundamental spinning used to be in people's lives, and how eerie it is that it's vanished so entirely. It occurred to me today that it's a bit like if in the future all food was made by machine, and people forgot what farming and cooking were. Not just that they forgot how to do it; they had never heard of it.

When they use phrases like "spinning yarns" for telling stories or "heckling a performer" without understanding where they come from, I imagine a scene in the future where someone uses the phrase "stir the pot" to mean "cause a disagreement" and I say, did you know a pot used to be a container for heating food, and stirring was a way of combining different components of food together? "Wow, you're full of weird facts! How do you even know that?"

When I say I spin and people say "What, like you do exercise bikes? Is that a kind of dancing? What's drafting? What's a hackle?" it's like if I started talking about my cooking hobby and my friend asked "What's salt? Also, what's cooking?" Well, you see, there are a lot of stages to food preparation, starting with planting crops, and cooking is one of the later stages. Salt is a chemical used in cooking which mostly alters the flavor of the food but can also be used for other things, like drawing out moisture...

"Wow, that sounds so complicated. You must have done a lot of research. You're so good at cooking!" I'm really not. In the past, children started learning about cooking as early as age five ("Isn't that child labor?"), and many people cooked every day their whole lives ("Man, people worked so hard back then."). And that's just an average person, not to mention people called "chefs" who did it professionally. I go to the historic preservation center to use their stove once or twice a week, and I started learning a couple years ago. So what I know is less sophisticated than what some children could do back in the day.

"Can you make me a snickers bar?" No, that would be pretty hard. I just make sandwiches mostly. Sometimes I do scrambled eggs. "Oh, I would've thought a snickers bar would be way more basic than eggs. They seem so simple!"

Haven't you ever wondered where food comes from? I ask them. When you were a kid, did you ever pick apart the different colored bits in your food and wonder what it was made of? "No, I never really thought about it." Did you know rice balls are called that because they're made from part of a plant called rice? "Oh haha, that's so weird. I thought 'rice' was just an adjective for anything that was soft and white."

People always ask me why I took up spinning. Isn't it weird that there are things we take so much for granted that we don't even notice when they're gone? Isn't it strange that something which has been part of humanity all across the planet since the Neanderthals is being forgotten in our generation? Isn't it funny that when knowledge dies, it leaves behind a ghost, just like a person? Don't you want to commune with it?

[memorymessage]

casey neistat sure does have the voice of a newly pubescent teen boy for looking like a freshly unthawed fossilized neaderthal

[martinshep]

Looking into what little research has been done on therians (mostly within the furry community) and finding participants were asked what percentage of themselves they feel is human, and then wondering what that would be for myself has led me down a mental path

Honestly I think maybe it’s not something that could be a percentage for me? It’s like asking what percentage animal humans are, or what percentage human neaderthals are, it’s not quite an easy question since that depends on what you’re using to define those terms, because in the sense of what I am I’m human-adjacent but definitely not something is human is the sense of homo sapiens sapiens (similar to the neanderthal analogy), but in other facets of my identity I’m mostly if not fully human

[sasookei]

@graphitedrizzle Thank you for reaching out! Asking questions is important to understanding more about the world, and it's good not to take scientific information from strangers on the internet at face value. Worm lung explanation below.

The immune system's response must be proportional to the challenge it faces [1]. Below is a screenshot of pg 32 of Janeway's Immunobiology 9th Edition (link to download the textbook for a better resolution in the bibliography).

The paragraph explains that the immune system can give a 'normal' immune response to an inappropriate stimulus, an example being an asthmatic inflammation response to an innocuous substance like dust. This means that a 'deficient' immune response to an innocuous substance would be no reaction. The table at the bottom of the textbook page displays this.

So asthma is the immune system attacking a stimuli, and a lack of asthma indicates a deficient immune response to that same stimuli.

What is asthma supposed to be attacking then?

In prehistoric times, the bodies of ancient humans were filled with parasitic worms [2]. Explained in this paper is the life cycle of various parasitic worms. The species' we are interested in are ingested orally, lays its eggs in the small intestine, it's larvae migrate to the lungs, where the worms are coughed out and re-swallowed by the host, and transported through the digestive tract back to the small intestine. Thus, ancient bodies had lungs infected with worms. These worms are what the asthma is supposed to be attacking. The innate immune response to parasitic worms in the lungs is asthma, to cough out the worms [3].

Allergic asthma (the specific subset of asthma we are concerned about today) is caused by eosinophilia (a high level of eosinophils)[4]. Eosinophils are a type of lymphocyte, the white blood cells that modulate immune system responses. These are the cells that do the attacking, and cause the asthmatic inflammation response. Eosinophils act both through biochemically attacking the worms on a cellular level, and causing physiological coughing to cough out the worms [5]. Inflammation of any kind in the human body is basically the immune system flooding the area with lymphocytes (absurdly oversimplifying, but this post is long enough already.)

So, what have we learned?

1. Ancient bodies were full of worms. worms in your damn lungs. [2]

2. The asthma coughing reaction is a specific response done by specific cells (eosinophils) in response to parasites (including parasitic worms). [5]

3. A 'normal' immune response to these worms in the lungs made ancient people survive longer by attacking and coughing out the worms, as opposed to a 'deficient' immune system response, which was to do nothing. [3]

4. Ancient humans who had the 'normal' immune response to worms in their lungs are the progenitors of modern people who have asthma. Ancient humans who had a 'deficient' response to worm parasites in their lungs are the progenitors of modern humans who don't have asthma. (or more accurately, they contributed their respective alleles to the gene pool, but genetics is so so complicated so take the easy explanation.)

5. So a 'normal' immune response is to have asthma, and a 'deficient' immune response is to not have asthma. However, due to increased standards in hygiene and medicine, we no longer have to worry about parasitic worms in our lungs. So the immune system's response is no longer proportional to the challenge it faces. Thus, in the modern world it's actually more of a bother to have the anti-worm defences, because those defences are also triggered by innocuous substances in the lungs like dust.

6. Thank you neaderthals for fucking nasty

All this being said, while I encourage asking questions, I quickly found multiple sources about this topic so I'm a bit disappointed to hear you couldn't find anything.

Bibliography:

[1] Janeway's Immunobiology - 9th Edition, pg 32. Downloaded from: https://www.academia.edu/40521511/Janeways_Immunobiology_9th_Edition

[2] History of Human Parasitology. Accessed from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC126866/

[3] What Can Parasites Tell Us About the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Asthma and Allergic Diseases. Accessed from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7516051/

[4] Eosinophils cause asthma. Accessed from: https://www.immunology.org/public-information/bitesized-immunology/cells/eosinophils

[5] Parasitic Diseases of the Lung. Accessed from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7122070/

[6] Trust me bro I prommy. Accessed from: https://www.Read.All.The.Sources.Cited.Dont.Just.Trust.The.List.

Neanderthals probably had insane pull. They were like “I am taking care of my grandma since she hurt her foot. Look at this beautiful cave painting I made.” and early modern humans were like “You are so refreshingly compassionate and make beautiful art. Your stocky frame, huge head and chinlessness have seduced me. Let’s interbreed and create offspring that will have unique autoimmune problems for thousands of years to come.”