#paleontologist? great now we're gonna spend an hour talking about megafauna. anatomist? honestly i have no idea why they're here | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

hylianengineer · 1 year ago

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Trying to watch documentaries about your field of study is so frustrating. Yes I know we have a common ancestor with chimpanzees; why did you take ten minutes to explain that?! Everyone knows that! Right? Right!? Of course chimps are built for climbing but tell me why! Are you gonna talk about their shoulder joints or aren’t you? Yes, yes, the hand-feet, we’ve all seen them. Shoulder joints are way more interesting. Shut up about the hand-feet.

#i'm so mad #i tried to watch three different paleoanthro documentaries #the first one was made by an amateur. the second was as much about ice age megafauna as anything. and the third was this.#i'm learning that if their main narrator/informant is not a paleoanthropologist that's a red flag #paleontologist? great now we're gonna spend an hour talking about megafauna. anatomist? honestly i have no idea why they're here #i don't need to hear someone go on about the evolution of bipedalism for ten minutes without even mentioning the anatomical changes #that made it possible. tell me about the foramen magnum! tell me about the pelvis! tell me about knees!#and shoulders! and finger bones! tell me how we developed non-grasping feet!#if you're not going to talk about those then what are we even doing here #hylian rambles #anthropology #paleoanthropology #hominins

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