re: Fossils in Greece Suggest Human Ancestors Evolved in Europe, Not Africa

Evolution thoughts:

1) Evolutionary step changes are fascinating. The substeps hold no advantage. Take flight for instance: If you don’t have wings it’s in your evolutionary interest as a species to NOT jump off of stuff and try flying. However, if you have wings, they’re a hindrance unless you also have no fear of fear of jumping off stuff and flying.

So then the world was waiting for a small dinosaur to be born with wings as a birth defect who was simultaneously suicidal, just to jump off a tree and find out he starts gliding instead of falling and is bad at that suicide thing.

Also, that birth defect has to NOT make you less attractive to your the opposite sex of your original species. You can fly all you want, but if the ladies don’t want you anywhere near their eggs you’re SOL for passing that trait on. This then means you might have to be born with a propensity to rape.

So this is what birds were waiting on: A suicidal dinosaur rapist with a hideous birth defect.

2) As bad as modern politics are, can you imagine what they’d be like if there were several surviving hominid species? (I know Geico explored that one in commercials). But I want an expose on the ethics of keeping Neanderthals in zoos banging on the glass screaming “Look! I can talk arsehole!”

And does Hitler send Neanderthals (as sub-human shields) to the front lines or to the gas chambers (as sub-humans) in this timeline?