This is a blatant parody. Probability of pig+chimp hybrids involved in human origins are at pascal-low levels.
It sounds convincing to me
This is worthy of notice. It really shouldn't have been remotely convincing..
Can you identify the factors which caused you to give the statements in this article more credibility than you would have given to any random internet source of an unlikely-sounding claim? Information about what went wrong here might be useful from a rationality-increasing perspective.
Can you identify the factors which caused you to give the statements in this article more credibility than you would have given to any random internet source of an unlikely-sounding claim?
Mostly, the fact that I don't know shit about biology, and the writer uses full, grammatical sentences, cites a few references, anticipates possible counterarguments and responds to them, and more generally doesn't show many of the obvious signs of crackpottery.
Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are: