XogGyux wrote:That's like saying homo Erectus didn't go extinct because they left thousands of descendants that are also called homo .
It is not like being a chicken is any more prestigious than being an extinct dinosaur.
Homo erectus did not go extinct, since we are their descendants. The concept of 'homo erectus' is a human abstraction, a label which we put on a complex reality which is less discontinuous and less neatly categorised than we would like. Cladistically speaking, we
are homo erectus, just as birds
are dinosaurs. A dinosaur can never give birth to anything which is not itself a dinosaur. At which generation did they stop being dinosaurs and become birds? There was
no such generation.
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