[HN Gopher] By eating them, hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skelet...
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By eating them, hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons in one cave
Author : gmays
Score : 15 points
Date : 2021-05-13 12:58 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
| benjohnson wrote:
| Weird bit: Hyenas are genetically felines, but behave more like
| dogs than the cats we're used to.
| GordonS wrote:
| > Hyenas are genetically felines
|
| Huh, I didn't know that, I'd always seen hyenas as cousins of
| dogs/wolves.
| theluketaylor wrote:
| Hyenas are inverse foxes. Hyenas are dog software on cat
| hardware and foxes are cat software on dog hardware.
| ttraub wrote:
| Yes, and weirdly, hyenas didn't get the sharp, retractable
| claws that all true cats possess. I wonder what advantage
| this adaptation gave them.
| wellthisisgreat wrote:
| Not directly related, isn't it somewhat strange, grammar-wise?
|
| Not a native English speaker, but I'd thought English grammar
| would require to put it: Hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons,
| by eating them.
| freshair wrote:
| Yeah, that's a bizarre headline. I'm not sure it's wrong, but
| it's quite strange.
|
| Edit: I'm not sure actually right either. It was not the act of
| eating that transported the bodies; rather the bodies were
| brought there so they could be eaten.
|
| _" Hyenas dragged 9 Neanderthals to a cave to eat them."_
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| drops wrote:
| Both are fine, if you remove the comma in your example, but the
| one used in the article puts the focus on "eating" first. It's
| also more interesting to read: "By eating them..." (who ate who
| or what?) ..."hyenas gathered neanderthal skeletons" (oh good,
| interesting archeology, I'll check it out) etc.
| anonporridge wrote:
| Before reading the article, I was terribly confused about how
| Neanderthals would have ended up in Africa.
| okareaman wrote:
| I would like to put in a plug for Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.
| My intro to this author wasn't good. I listened to him try to be
| big brain about the pandemic and wasn't impressed, but then I
| picked up Sapiens. Now I know why people like Bill Gates and
| Barack Obama recommend him.
| mmmrtl wrote:
| Trust your first impression of him trying to big brain about
| the pandemic, that's his whole shtik - compelling blather.
| Probably you're not a human population history researcher? That
| would make it very hard to see through his sensationalism
| okareaman wrote:
| > Probably you're not a human population history researcher
|
| No I am a very interested amateur. I just learned about
| Denisovans. Sapiens is a good story and I assumed he was
| simplifying. I plan to go deeper on this subject.
| belugacat wrote:
| What are some good human population history writers?
| meowkit wrote:
| Character assassinations without providing links or other
| material are a net negative and are not going to convince
| most people you're right.
| proc0 wrote:
| So you're implying he's all sensationalist, including
| Sapiens?
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