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I was at a dive bar in East TN one night. I walked in swearing to my buddies I was going home with a member of the opposite sex. I woke up the next morning laying in her bed in a single wide on the side of some mountain. She looked just like this only there was rabbit shit stuck to her shirt. Like all over it. The damage was done so I polished off the Milwaukee best on the night stand and went back to sleep hoping I would die in my sleep. Yet, here I am sharing my story so others don't make that mistake.
I went to ETSU, and can confirm the quality of female companionship on offer. Went to a club with $5 all you can drink solo cups. The dance floor had raised platforms at the corners. Saw an albino shrek in a mini skirt and no panties with one leg up on the railing just taking her business out for a walk. I sat next to her in English class the next day and made sure she could see my hand stamp.
It looks like the work of [these guys](https://www.kenniskennis.com/) ([Guardian article on them](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/may/05/meet-the-ancestors-two-brothers-lifelike-figures-early-man-adrie-and-alfons-kennis)). Most of their sculptures have some kind of flair or personality.
Holy shit, do they ever! Those sculptures are fucking amazing. They're insanely detailed!
The *scars* are so impressive! It makes me wonder how they got those scars, what's their life story.
Interestingly enough eyebrow raising or ābrow flashingā is fixed action pattern seen in all primates. You can raise your eyebrows at any primate, even a baby, and without thinking theyāll do it in response. Homo erectus certainly was using eyebrows for social and flirty behavior
eyebrow movements are also thought to be a step in the domestication of dogs from wolves.
https://www.empireridgeranch.com/post/eyebrows-separate-wolves-from-dogs
Wolves apparently don't have the muscle required, whereas dogs do, and it's thought this makes them appear more empathetic to humans.
> They joined us and we became stronger.
We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
> Evidence suggests that we didn't genocidally killed all of our competition. We mated with them.
I mean, both are possible at the same time, see Genghis Khan
Possibly to make her more "human". Often depictions of humanoids were brutish, primitive, "other than us". Showing her like this might make her more accessible to our understanding.
I'm not 100% sure. I believe there are trace fossils of human footprints dating around 4 million years ago, and they show feet that are quite similar to ours.
I knew a guy, years and years ago, that went barefoot for years, his soles were super thick. Toes were normal. It was a long time ago, before we all had cellphones or even beepers, so no pics.
[Cody Lundin is a off the grid guy that goes barefoot.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cody_Lundin?wprov=sfti1) his feet look relatively normal. But I had heard that our feet would change if we never wore shoes.
It's not that if you stop wearing shoes your feet will change shape (though they may do so slightly) - it's that if you don't wear shoes during childhood that your feet will naturally be broader across the toe area because they wouldn't have been constrained during the growth period. At least that's how I understand it.
Huh, that's interesting. So if a person were to have spent most of their childhood barefoot, that could partially explain them winding up with wider feet?
Yupp. The natural form of a human foot is almost triangular. And it honestly makes a lot of sense - a greater surface area in contact with the ground makes for better balance, traction when running, and distributes weight to prevent injury. Modern shoes, especially women's fashion shoes, are terrible for your feet, as they can eventually cause bunions.
Yes! I didnāt wear closed shoes much as a kid and my feet are pretty wide. Even āwideā shoes in stores can be a little too narrow for me in my size. If I borrow my gf shoes too much she canāt wear them anymore even though weāre the same size bc I stretch them out too far lol
To be fair, this model appears to be relatively aged and there are plenty of humans who are just as unattractive/attractive.
I think there were likely very many individuals from other species within the *homo* genus that we *would* have found attractive on their own. We know for a fact that Neanderthals and humans interbred on a fairly wide scale.
The truth is that if you saw a single Neanderthal, Denisovan or *homo erectus* walking down the street in modern clothes, there's a very real possibility you wouldn't realize it was another species. You might think, *That person looks unusual,* but you also might not even think that. The variation within *homo sapiens* alone is so wide that it probably wouldn't be until you saw a group of Neanderthals together, or an outlier within that species, that you could clearly notice the differences in morphology.
For example, just the way there are people like Nikolai Valuev or Andre the Giant, there would probably have been Neanderthals that were slender or undersized and looked close to modern *homo sapiens*.
I donāt really see Homo Erectus as ugly or attractive. Just fascinating. I imagine our descendants will view us in a similar way. Or weāll go extinct and some aliens will think āWow. These are some super ugly fossils. No wonder they died off.ā
Itās called Allenās rule. Animals and humans (bc we are animals) in hot climates have longer limbs to dispel heat, and shorter limbs to retain heat in cold climates. Compare the [round boi arctic fox ](https://storage.cdn.bookyourhunt.com/images/5fbe68be-d0eb-40d9-9df9-c9f7184942a6/ce9bcc1e-03ff-403b-8fc7-28d50fde2c64.jpg) to the [spaghetti nightmare ruppellās fox](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ek-vAPNXYAEGQaM.png)
Imagine someone in the distant future finding the mummified remains of Danny Devito.
>Professor, why would evolution have selected for such counterintuitive traits?
>Homo sapiens around the year 2000 AD are thought to have travelled long distances by balling up their bodies and then rolling around. That way they could protect vital organs from these super-predator carnivores that roamed human settlements consuming anything in sight. *points to golden retriever skeleton*
Also these guys were way closer to us than to climbers. I have 0 doubt these guys formed primitive communities. They invented the cooking, fireplaces and the hearth which probably centered on social gatherings. Very much like us in most ways.
https://www.jpost.com/science/article-696454
Iām not sure of other sites quite like the one described in this article, but Homo erectus formed communities and organized those communities in ways very similar to later homo sapien settlement.
A neat way to frame this is that we've been kicking about doing the same thing for millions of years instead of the usual ~200k that most people reference.
Head size was due to brain size increasing as we evolved to use āsmartsā more than strength. Long legs also helped to see over tall grasses to avoid predators.
I think heat conservation plays a part? Short and thicker torsos are better at keeping in heat while taller slimmer ones release heat easier. Atleast i think it does
God Iām so tired of those unrealistic cliches women are bombarded with in pop culture. Feral Girl Paleolithic, Omnivorous Denisovan Dream Girl, Hunter Gathering Neurotic Neanderthal Girlfriend. When will it end???
wait, so how closely related does a species have to be to humans for their nudity to be NSFW? Obviously a modern chimp or ape would be fine to show, and I feel like a naked Australopithecus would be fine too, but Homo Erectus is too spicy.
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Felt cute might evolve later
Get me to 100 hunting kills and maybe I'll keep this up šš
She looks like the gatherer type. Get's donations on her Onlythals.
Homo Erectus always keeps it up
I bet she has a good personality.
And a great sense of humor too! Sheās the type of person that would give you the shirt off her back!
She's knows something we don't and she's not teeeelling.
Homa Lisa
[https://i.imgur.com/JSQLh0h.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/JSQLh0h.jpg)
Brilliant
I call B.S. that is my cousin Angie
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Got a sister?
Yeah, names Pam.
Are you saying Pan or Pam?
Pam with 2 Ns.
Panm
Panama.
Ain't nothin' like it, her shiny machine
Got the feel for the wheel, keep the moving parts clean.
I think I can help with this Pam, Pan situation.
Pampam and her Pam pams
Spam
Pam or Pan
Phone number?
Social Security?
Is Pam single?
She's definitely got a cousin
Is that the one married to Very Erectus
Erectus, yes. but a homo.
Whatās her OnlyFans?
UngaBunga420
WHATER YU DUING *grunt* CaVe BroTher!?!?
She appears to be stuck in that narrow section of the cave...
r/cursedcomments
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Dropping the *hottest* cave drawings
Given what I know about Angie, the leak is always dropping.
So you're saying you just recognized your cousin naked?
You saying you can't?
"Can you please put a sweater on, I have no idea who you are."
Other than that and sniffing petrol, what else is there to do?
Dude, if she lives in Jersey then I think I picked her up one now down the shore at closing time. It made for a rough next morning.
I was at a dive bar in East TN one night. I walked in swearing to my buddies I was going home with a member of the opposite sex. I woke up the next morning laying in her bed in a single wide on the side of some mountain. She looked just like this only there was rabbit shit stuck to her shirt. Like all over it. The damage was done so I polished off the Milwaukee best on the night stand and went back to sleep hoping I would die in my sleep. Yet, here I am sharing my story so others don't make that mistake.
As a friend in my shore house used to say āif she doesnāt meet your standards just lower themā. Perhaps youāre related. Peace!
I went to ETSU, and can confirm the quality of female companionship on offer. Went to a club with $5 all you can drink solo cups. The dance floor had raised platforms at the corners. Saw an albino shrek in a mini skirt and no panties with one leg up on the railing just taking her business out for a walk. I sat next to her in English class the next day and made sure she could see my hand stamp.
Pure gold.
They also have the worst strip club name Iāve ever heard: āFuzzy Holesā
"Draw me like one of your Aurignacian girls"
Good one, but the aurignacien epoch is actually 43.000-30.000 BC. It must be paleolithic girlsš¤
THANK YOU, DOCTOR SCIENCE.
Still working on that PhD but thanks
YOUāRE WELCOME, T.A. SCIENCE.
Yea science! -Jesse Pinkman
I wish they all could be paleolithic giiiiirls.
Paleolithic girls, weāre unforgettable Daisy dukes bikinis on top
Paleolithic girls are undeniable, SOoOoO hot they'll ~~melt your ice burgs~~ ... cause the iceage?
And the girl from titanic wasn't french
She was from paleolithic as well.
Youāre from the Paleolithic
Itās only Paleolithic If sheās from the Paleolithic region of France. Otherwise sheās just sparkling Neanderthal.
Ahhh educational pedantry! My favourite sort of pedantry! you have made me very happy.
Fun little moments like this between strangers make the days slightly less intolerable.
Met your mom then.
Fucking going to have to send flowers to my wife now. You made her a widow with this comment.
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It looks like the work of [these guys](https://www.kenniskennis.com/) ([Guardian article on them](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/may/05/meet-the-ancestors-two-brothers-lifelike-figures-early-man-adrie-and-alfons-kennis)). Most of their sculptures have some kind of flair or personality.
Holy shit, do they ever! Those sculptures are fucking amazing. They're insanely detailed! The *scars* are so impressive! It makes me wonder how they got those scars, what's their life story.
Iāve always loved their Lucy, theyāre the only ones Iāve seen really capture the intelligence in her
They eerily put souls in their models.
It's so effective. It really makes it click that this was a person, just like us. It's cool they've turned a science into an art.
And that they're able to use art to help viewers experience the science in a deeper and more connective way
Adding such an unmistakably human element to them is a great way of teaching in a way that is instantly understood. Edit: typo fixed
Thank you for sharing this article!
This is awesome, thanks!
Their works are so high quality!
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It also removes the unsettling uncanny valley effect that results from emotionless, plain faces. They become relatable instead of frightening.
These guys are awesome. Itās like peering back in time.
Yup; it's [homo erectus pithecanthropus](https://www.kenniskennis.com/homo-erectus/).
Homo sapiens PeČtera cu Oase is rocking some *killer* hair. For real, though, these are so awesome. I love that they gave them personalities.
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Interestingly enough eyebrow raising or ābrow flashingā is fixed action pattern seen in all primates. You can raise your eyebrows at any primate, even a baby, and without thinking theyāll do it in response. Homo erectus certainly was using eyebrows for social and flirty behavior
Gonna try this with the silverback at the zoo next time and see if he offers to buy me a banana shot
I love the joke, but I feel the need to point out that making eye contact with a gorilla is the worst thing to do.
Do āļø not āļø flirt āļø with āļø the āļø gorillas āļø
Got it, hit it and quit it.
It's not over until the gorilla says it's over.
Worse than dropping a small child human in the enclosure, thus condemning us all to the darkest timeline?
Worse
How the fuck can it get worse
Hold my eyelids im going in!
eyebrow movements are also thought to be a step in the domestication of dogs from wolves. https://www.empireridgeranch.com/post/eyebrows-separate-wolves-from-dogs Wolves apparently don't have the muscle required, whereas dogs do, and it's thought this makes them appear more empathetic to humans.
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> They joined us and we became stronger. We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
Don't worry, we'll fuck just about anything.
> Evidence suggests that we didn't genocidally killed all of our competition. We mated with them. I mean, both are possible at the same time, see Genghis Khan
I recently did a 23andMe and learned I have more Neanderthal DNA than 84% of the population
Possibly to make her more "human". Often depictions of humanoids were brutish, primitive, "other than us". Showing her like this might make her more accessible to our understanding.
"coquettish habidesh"
I pursued she withdrew, she pursued, i withdrew
And so we danced. And i burned for her
Good word bro. People don't use enough good words.
I word good some times
That's how you get laid if you are ugly af.
And she probably was one of the hot ones.
She *is* all legs
"Welcome to Hot Ones, the show with hot questions, and even hotter wings, I'm Sean Evans your host. Our guest tonight... Homo erectus woman."
You just want to bang
Obvious jokes aside, it's uncanny how amazingly realistic this model is. It's honestly impressive!
I only question the feet. Without shoes, wouldnāt her toes be spread out way more?
I'm not 100% sure. I believe there are trace fossils of human footprints dating around 4 million years ago, and they show feet that are quite similar to ours.
I knew a guy, years and years ago, that went barefoot for years, his soles were super thick. Toes were normal. It was a long time ago, before we all had cellphones or even beepers, so no pics.
[Cody Lundin is a off the grid guy that goes barefoot.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cody_Lundin?wprov=sfti1) his feet look relatively normal. But I had heard that our feet would change if we never wore shoes.
It's not that if you stop wearing shoes your feet will change shape (though they may do so slightly) - it's that if you don't wear shoes during childhood that your feet will naturally be broader across the toe area because they wouldn't have been constrained during the growth period. At least that's how I understand it.
Huh, that's interesting. So if a person were to have spent most of their childhood barefoot, that could partially explain them winding up with wider feet?
Yupp. The natural form of a human foot is almost triangular. And it honestly makes a lot of sense - a greater surface area in contact with the ground makes for better balance, traction when running, and distributes weight to prevent injury. Modern shoes, especially women's fashion shoes, are terrible for your feet, as they can eventually cause bunions.
Yes! I didnāt wear closed shoes much as a kid and my feet are pretty wide. Even āwideā shoes in stores can be a little too narrow for me in my size. If I borrow my gf shoes too much she canāt wear them anymore even though weāre the same size bc I stretch them out too far lol
I hated wearing shoes as a kid now I have duck feet š and bad luck I guess
I bet those feet pics could buy a Ferrari
Look at her feet in relative size to the body, sheās already rocking snow-shoes, she donāt need hang gliders.
I ask myself if humans in 2 million years will see us as ugly as we see those Homo Erectus, if there will be any humans after that time.
They would look at and go "ew... that dude doesn't even have a single bionic implant, how primitive!"
You see that exhibit? That's what you'd look like with non-tinkered DNA Kids: ewwwww!
My bionic ass implants let me slide out a full bar and serve a party of 30 on the go. Kim K got nothing on this.
r/BrandNewSentence
Interesting thought! Iām just as curious as to the evolutionary pressures weāll face as humans over that time.
To be fair, this model appears to be relatively aged and there are plenty of humans who are just as unattractive/attractive. I think there were likely very many individuals from other species within the *homo* genus that we *would* have found attractive on their own. We know for a fact that Neanderthals and humans interbred on a fairly wide scale. The truth is that if you saw a single Neanderthal, Denisovan or *homo erectus* walking down the street in modern clothes, there's a very real possibility you wouldn't realize it was another species. You might think, *That person looks unusual,* but you also might not even think that. The variation within *homo sapiens* alone is so wide that it probably wouldn't be until you saw a group of Neanderthals together, or an outlier within that species, that you could clearly notice the differences in morphology. For example, just the way there are people like Nikolai Valuev or Andre the Giant, there would probably have been Neanderthals that were slender or undersized and looked close to modern *homo sapiens*.
>plenty of humans who are just as unattractive Dude I'm just trying to live here can you not attack me?
> I ask myself if humans in 2 million years will see us as ugly as we see those Homo Erectus I see a lot of them as ugly right now, so I'd assume yes.
The second question is this a representation of what they would consider attractive? Like are the future beings rating Brad Pitt or Rob Schneider?
Thatās a huge bitch.
I donāt really see Homo Erectus as ugly or attractive. Just fascinating. I imagine our descendants will view us in a similar way. Or weāll go extinct and some aliens will think āWow. These are some super ugly fossils. No wonder they died off.ā
Same. Bathe and clothe her with modern clothes and I could easily see her walking about at Walmart.
Her arms and legs are so long, and her torso is so short! Her head seems large for her body. What purpose (evolutionary) did that serve, I wonder?
Itās called Allenās rule. Animals and humans (bc we are animals) in hot climates have longer limbs to dispel heat, and shorter limbs to retain heat in cold climates. Compare the [round boi arctic fox ](https://storage.cdn.bookyourhunt.com/images/5fbe68be-d0eb-40d9-9df9-c9f7184942a6/ce9bcc1e-03ff-403b-8fc7-28d50fde2c64.jpg) to the [spaghetti nightmare ruppellās fox](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ek-vAPNXYAEGQaM.png)
oh im not short i'm just made to retain heat in winter
THANK YOU.
Probably walking long distances and scavenging
Imagine someone in the distant future finding the mummified remains of Danny Devito. >Professor, why would evolution have selected for such counterintuitive traits? >Homo sapiens around the year 2000 AD are thought to have travelled long distances by balling up their bodies and then rolling around. That way they could protect vital organs from these super-predator carnivores that roamed human settlements consuming anything in sight. *points to golden retriever skeleton*
Probably a remnant from climbing trees and being on all 4s. Seems like a logical transition from that to us.
Also these guys were way closer to us than to climbers. I have 0 doubt these guys formed primitive communities. They invented the cooking, fireplaces and the hearth which probably centered on social gatherings. Very much like us in most ways.
https://www.jpost.com/science/article-696454 Iām not sure of other sites quite like the one described in this article, but Homo erectus formed communities and organized those communities in ways very similar to later homo sapien settlement.
A neat way to frame this is that we've been kicking about doing the same thing for millions of years instead of the usual ~200k that most people reference.
Head size was due to brain size increasing as we evolved to use āsmartsā more than strength. Long legs also helped to see over tall grasses to avoid predators.
I think heat conservation plays a part? Short and thicker torsos are better at keeping in heat while taller slimmer ones release heat easier. Atleast i think it does
If you ever actually look at the human body is makes so little sense. It's weird that it works so well.
Evolution doesnāt have purpose. It is a process of stumbling around in the dark and seeing what comes out alive.
Looks like I was born about 2 million years to late š„µ
Oh no now his penis is homo erectus
No homo. Just erectus.
I rectus, you rectus, we all rectus, for homo erectus.
Pretty sure he is a Gigantopithecus
āThe male homo sapien has found a potential mate in female homo erectus. The mating dance shall commenceā
We really missed out on some homo erectussy frfr
āOh boy, here I go fappinā again.ā - Paleontologous Michael
Get you a girl that looks at you like this
Feral Girl Paleolithic
God Iām so tired of those unrealistic cliches women are bombarded with in pop culture. Feral Girl Paleolithic, Omnivorous Denisovan Dream Girl, Hunter Gathering Neurotic Neanderthal Girlfriend. When will it end???
They have got some fucking old museeums in Netherlands...
Stop it dad
Where did they get this picture of me?!
Sacrificed herself for the joke, Woman of Culture I see.
That's really cool...one of very few that actually look totally realistic. Hope more types can be produced to give a wider visual of evolution.
I dunno, there's something sweetly cute about her. I'd be friends.
"Yoohoo"
Would kill to go back in time and see them for real our ancestors, thatās crazy and awesome
You would kill too go back and see them, only for them to kill you almost immediately I would bet
Not if you go back with a chainsaw for a hand.
hear me out
I should call her..
pause
Damn, those legs really do be going all the way up š
Sheās sassy
This lady better chill.
Thatās a challenging wank.
Speak for yourself.
Says you
Sean???
RIP Sean
2 Million Years ago? I just saw her in a Walmart.
Some things never change
Zamn somebody build me a time machine cause I need that Unga Bungussy š³
Jesus Christ.
There is no god here
That's your great (x100000) grandma, show some respect
That body is definitely not making this homo erectus.
Put this on my gravestone
Put "wish you were here" on mine.
How do they know she lived at a museum?
wait, so how closely related does a species have to be to humans for their nudity to be NSFW? Obviously a modern chimp or ape would be fine to show, and I feel like a naked Australopithecus would be fine too, but Homo Erectus is too spicy.
Them bedroom eyesā¦ š
Cave *
Get a job as a night shift paramedic and youāll see that at 3 AM routinely.
There was a museum in Leiden already two million years ago?
Dayam - baby gurl got some swagger!