• GraniteM@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      6 months ago

      The only thing I can think of is that it’s implying that as you get smarter you find cavemen more attractive and consider modern humans to be ugly.

      • OneMeaningManyNames@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        31·
        6 months ago

        I thought obvious that the joke refers to the misconception some people host that ‘homo sapiens’ is a less evolved species than modern people, something we out-evolved.

        • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          6 months ago

          ‘homo sapiens’ is a less evolved species than modern people, something we out-evolved.

          who the fuck is thinking this and why?

        • essell@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          6 months ago

          This is a common misconception? What education system is failing people this badly?

          • homicidalrobot@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            6 months ago

            In my experience, it’s usually people trying to overexplain “homo sapiens sapiens” and “homo sapiens neanderthalensis” because they don’t know anything about the topic at hand except those words. Subspecies on the character sheet has always been a technicality issue.

  • Sakychu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    152·
    6 months ago

    Are “homo sapiens sapiens” then “ugly ugly caveman” or “ugly caveman man”?

    • accideath@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      6 months ago

      Although, debatably, homo neanderthalensis is not a subspecies of homo sapiens, thus negating the need for a homo sapiens neandterthalensis and homo sapiens sapiens classification differentiation to exist, making homo sapiens always the modern man (who yes, is also an ugly caveman) and homo neanderthalensis the most recent full time ugly caveman.

    • OneMeaningManyNames@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      94·
      6 months ago

      I suppose that :

      1. “ugly ugly caveman” -> homo sapiens neanderthalensis
      2. “ugly caveman man” -> homo sapiens sapiens
    • fossilesque@mander.xyzMEnglish
      101·
      6 months ago

      This is a physical anthropology taxonomy joke. That’s absolutely a science.

  • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    6 months ago

    Homo sapiens= ugly cavemen

    Homo sapiens sapiens = ugly city’s men (us)

    • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      6 months ago

      https://www.britannica.com/topic/Homo-sapiens-sapiens

      Homo sapiens sapiens, in anthropology and paleontology, the subspecies of Homo sapiens that consists of the only living members of genus Homo, modern human beings. Traditionally, this subspecies designation was used by paleontologists and anthropologists to separate modern human beings from more-archaic members of Homo sapiens.

    • leftzero@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      21·
      6 months ago

      This is about being specieist against neanderthals (homo sapiens neanderthalensis), not about whatever you’re rambling about.

    • essell@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      6 months ago

      Yeah, but 99% of the people who supported that endeavour were ugly cavemen.

      A minority of wise men is enough.