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Comment author: [deleted] 27 August 2012 06:18:44PM *  4 points [-]

A good red flag to identify poor history teachers quickly is if they ever use the word “we” to describe a group that includes themselves and people who died before they were born.

I endorse this heuristic.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 August 2012 06:39:31PM 1 point [-]

On the other hand, we mathematicians do this all the time, so this heuristic may break down outside of the history department....

Comment author: [deleted] 28 August 2012 12:56:18PM 0 points [-]

Have I already mentioned the documentary about events taking places tens of millennia ago in which the presenter consistently referred to Homo sapiens sapiens and H. sapiens neanderthalensis as “us” and “them” respectively?

Comment author: [deleted] 28 August 2012 02:13:43PM *  0 points [-]

This is rather funny considering the best current evidence seems to indicates we have H. sapiens neanderthalensis ancestry as well.

Why do we feel the need to pick sides between two slightly different subtypes of humans before the dawn of recorded history?

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 29 August 2012 08:12:14AM 0 points [-]

This is rather funny considering the best current evidence seems to indicates we have H. sapiens neanderthalensis ancestry as well.

I don't know about we, but I do (or so says the lab that genotyped me).

Comment author: [deleted] 29 August 2012 10:11:38AM 1 point [-]

throws rocks at the out group hominid

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