The only serious question remains:
how can so many PAs remain so incredibly stupid to believe their ancestors ran after antelopes over African savannas?? :-DDD
Some paleo-anthropologists still see everywhere "human ancestors".
Orangs have lot of fossil relatives/ancestors in Asia (sivapiths etc.), but for some obscure reason (read: anthropo-/ego-/afro-centrism) tradit.PAs never see in Africa fossils of bonobo or chimp or gorilla relatives, only fossils of themselves=humans.
Yet human DNA (no Pliocene African retrovirus) clearly shows human ancestors were NOT in Africa at least (IMO even longer) during the Pliocene (Yohn cs 2005 PLoS Biol.3:1-11).
littor...@gmail.com wrote:
Some paleo-anthropologists still see everywhere "human ancestors".
Orangs have lot of fossil relatives/ancestors in Asia (sivapiths etc.), but for some obscure reason (read: anthropo-/ego-/afro-centrism) tradit.PAs never see in Africa fossils of bonobo or chimp or gorilla relatives, only fossils of themselves=humans.
Yet human DNA (no Pliocene African retrovirus) clearly shows human ancestors were NOT in Africa at least (IMO even longer) during the Pliocene (Yohn cs 2005 PLoS Biol.3:1-11).
Most of academia is training. It's training people to not think.
The professor lectures. He assigns readings. Later you are given a test
where you regurgitate what the professor said in the lecture, what you
read in the readings. Deviate and you flunk the test.
After four or five or whatever years of strict obedience to the gospels,
they hand you a degree and you are now an expert.
Now the least creative, the most obedient, the absolute last people to
make any waves become the next generation of field workers,
professors and authors...
Know what's worse?
There's no military or economic application for any of this work. There's
no billions of dollars to be made off of it. And there's almost no jobs
what so ever.
The number of professor positions that open within the field in a given
year hoovers between zero and... what? Maybe two or three?
But "Zero" happens frequent enough.
You need to be rich already, to pursue an economically pointless
career. Or you have to be exceedingly lucky to get a position. Or you
have to be unusually proficient in navigating the politics of both
academia and the grant process. But what I did NOT just say here
is that you need to possess any particular skills or insight within
paleo archaeology itself.
The skills or qualifications (background) necessary to succeed in
paleo anthropology literally have nothing to do with paleo
anthropology itself.
You can be the most brilliant paleo anthropologist to ever exist,
and not be lucky enough to score a position. Or be lousy at grant
writing. Or not belong to the Lucky Sperm Club so daddy can't
just pick up the phone and get you hired. And if you're not rich,
given everything else, you're going to be working the counter at
Starbucks before very long, your dreams of unraveling the truth
behind human origins crushed beneath the heals of a self
appointed elite...
This is true for everything that does not have a direct military or
economic potential.
littor...@gmail.com wrote:
Some paleo-anthropologists still see everywhere "human ancestors".
Orangs have lot of fossil relatives/ancestors in Asia (sivapiths etc.), but for some obscure reason (read: anthropo-/ego-/afro-centrism) tradit.PAs never see in Africa fossils of bonobo or chimp or gorilla relatives, only fossils of themselves=humans.
Yet human DNA (no Pliocene African retrovirus) clearly shows human ancestors were NOT in Africa at least (IMO even longer) during the Pliocene (Yohn cs 2005 PLoS Biol.3:1-11).
Most of academia is training. It's training people to not think.
The professor lectures. He assigns readings. Later you are given a test
where you regurgitate what the professor said in the lecture, what you
read in the readings. Deviate and you flunk the test.
After four or five or whatever years of strict obedience to the gospels,
they hand you a degree and you are now an expert.
Now the least creative, the most obedient, the absolute last people to
make any waves become the next generation of field workers,
professors and authors...
Know what's worse?
There's no military or economic application for any of this work. There's
no billions of dollars to be made off of it. And there's almost no jobs
what so ever.
The number of professor positions that open within the field in a given
year hoovers between zero and... what? Maybe two or three?
But "Zero" happens frequent enough.
You need to be rich already, to pursue an economically pointless
career. Or you have to be exceedingly lucky to get a position. Or you
have to be unusually proficient in navigating the politics of both
academia and the grant process. But what I did NOT just say here
is that you need to possess any particular skills or insight within
paleo archaeology itself.
The skills or qualifications (background) necessary to succeed in
paleo anthropology literally have nothing to do with paleo
anthropology itself.
You can be the most brilliant paleo anthropologist to ever exist,
and not be lucky enough to score a position. Or be lousy at grant
writing. Or not belong to the Lucky Sperm Club so daddy can't
just pick up the phone and get you hired. And if you're not rich,
given everything else, you're going to be working the counter at
Starbucks before very long, your dreams of unraveling the truth
behind human origins crushed beneath the heals of a self
appointed elite...
This is true for everything that does not have a direct military or
economic potential.
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