This should probaly belong in Biology, but

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The discussion centers on the achievements of mammals, particularly humans, in terms of travel and navigation. The speaker highlights their own travel of over 24,000 miles, contrasting it with reports of other mammals covering more than 200,000 miles. They emphasize the historical significance of Homo sapiens, tracing their lineage back through various taxonomic classifications and suggesting that early humans possessed advanced navigation skills using simple tools and observations of the stars. The speaker expresses a lack of pride in humanity's recent history and raises concerns about declining average IQ levels over time, suggesting that intelligence has diminished since the era of Homo sapiens' emergence.
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During one year, I, a mammal, traveled more than 24,000 miles but I am by far no means the king of mammals, for I have reports of mammals who've traveled more than 200,000 miles.

And that's not counting our astronauts.

Why are you failing to recognize our achievements as homo sapiens, which, beginning with us and working backwards in time involves Genus Homo, Tribe Homini, Subfamily Homininae, Family Hominidae, Order Primates, Class Mammalia, Phylum Chordata, and Kingdom Animalia?

Homo sapiens sapiens begat somewhere in 1758, according to wiki records, though I've seen clear evidence we were alive and well, well beyond any such revolutionary dates imagined well back into the 8th century B.C. (or BCE as the nugs call it: "The numbering of years using Common Era notation is identical to the numbering used with Anno Domini (BC/AD) notation" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.C.E." ).

Oh, crikey (not my monker) over the years I've been able to devise how early man might have been able to devise global navigation with nothing more than rock and stone and long-term observation. And that in just three years, knowing what they had to work with and knowing what I might have to have been known.

I've little doubt that 100,000 years ago, any hominid looking at the stars would be able to deduce anything less than this.
 
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Less than the circumference of the globe. :P

I'm personally not very proud of the past beyond a few thousand years, and even much of the more recent stuff (and stuff in the last 100 years) gives me cause for concern and embarrassment.

Also, please note that the average IQ was lower in the past, and is becoming increasingly lower today.
 
G037H3 said:
Also, please note that the average IQ was lower in the past, and is becoming increasingly lower today.

100 just ain't what it used to be
 

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