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[Dram]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese_people

In 2006, Sentinelese archers killed two fishermen who were fishing illegally within range of the island. The archers later drove off, with a hail of arrows, the helicopter that was sent to retrieve the bodies. To this date, the bodies remain unrecovered, although the downdraught from the helicopter's rotors at the time exposed the two fishermen's corpses, which had been buried in shallow graves by the Sentinelese.

 

[Neuromancer]

Ha!

(@ thread title, not at people getting killed)

 

[shadyspace]

This may be a dumb question, but how long has human intelligence been at the level we're at now? As humans, we're not necessarily "smarter" than these tribesman, just more learned. If you were to take one of their infants and raise it in a first-world country, they would develop like any normal person. But how back would you have to go in human history before this isn't the case? 10,0000 years? Further back?

What we consider the species "homo sapien" appeared 250,000 years ago

 

[Jack Scofield]

What we consider the species "homo sapien" appeared 250,000 years ago

Bah, I meant to type 100,000 instead of 10,000, but I guess I was still way off. Hard to believe the human brain is technically no smarter than it was a quarter-million years ago.

 

[Vagabundo]

Bah, I meant to type 100,000 instead of 10,000, but I guess I was still way off. Hard to believe the human brain is technically no smarter than it was a quarter-million years ago.

You'd be surprised at the shit that went on back then.

 

[YoungHav]

This is a declaration of war. I hope Obama uses his drones to assist our asian allies.

LOL.

 

[Amir0x]

This may be a dumb question, but how long has human intelligence been at the level we're at now? As humans, we're not necessarily "smarter" than these tribesman, just more learned. If you were to take one of their infants and raise it in a first-world country, they would develop like any normal person. But how back would you have to go in human history before this isn't the case? 10,0000 years? Further back?

So much range in the potential years, and it's hotly debated by scientists, but it's something like 60~40,000 years for full modernity of behavior. Anatomically, humans were pretty much what we are today around 180~200,000 years ago (as high up to 250,000, as noted above).

 

[lastplayed]

Bah, I meant to type 100,000 instead of 10,000, but I guess I was still way off. Hard to believe the human brain is technically no smarter than it was a quarter-million years ago.

Which is why I can't stand those nutters on Ancient Aliens.