The real Lucy. 3.2 million years old.

[_Ceeboo]

It was a wonderful day.

I bet it was!

Lucy displayed no emotion when we met. I guess you get a little jaded after three million years.

Good to see you!

Good to be seen, friend.

Peace,
Ceeboo

[_Darth J]

[_Ceeboo]

Brilliant, Darth!
Brilliant!

Peace,
Ceeboo

[_Tarski]

Yes, but a rather unlikeable subspecies:

It is amazing that you don't realize that through the Morlocks and other aspects of the story, Wells's was promoting his own socialist political views. The Morlocks were the deprived working class and the Eloi the leisured class suffering from the intellectual degeneration we see in a Donald Trump or Paris Hilton type character. Both groups were degenrate but for different reasons and in different ways. Someone with your views ought to steer clear of the HG Wells references.

[_ludwigm]

Another 3 million years and we will be fossils...


"No Connection" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the June 1948 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and reprinted in the 1972 collection The Early Asimov.

In the Earth of the far distant future, humans have died out and have been replaced, at least in the Americas, by a race descended from bears. Known to themselves as Gurrow sapiens, they live peaceably in communal groupings, trading with each other and sharing communal property, monetary units and duties. Their science has advanced almost to that of pre-atomic age humans. Little is known of other lands on the planet.

Raph, a Gurrow archaeologist, learns of the arrival on the continent's eastern seaboard of an unknown race, apparently descended from chimpanzees, who resemble 'Primate Primeval', the extinct race whose existence he has been trying to prove. Their science is more advanced and they are more war-like.

It is suspected that the arrivals may try to invade and colonise the lands occupied by Gurrows.

[_Quasimodo]

The great disappointment to Donald Johansen, even after his spectacular find, was that no trace of Linus or Charlie Brown could be found despite an extensive search.

[_Brackite]

From Wikipedia:

An alternative to extinction is that Neanderthals were absorbed into the Cro-Magnon population by interbreeding. This would be counter to strict versions of the Recent African Origin, since it would imply that at least part of the genome of Europeans would descend from Neanderthals.

The most vocal proponent of the hybridization hypothesis is Erik Trinkaus of Washington University.[89] Trinkaus claims various fossils as hybrid individuals, including the "child of Lagar Velho", a skeleton found at Lagar Velho in Portugal dated to about 24,000 years ago.[90] In a 2006 publication co-authored by Trinkaus, the fossils found in 1952 in the cave of Peștera Muierii, Romania, are likewise claimed as hybrids.[91]

Genetic research has confirmed that some admixture took place.[92] The genomes of all non-Africans include portions that are of Neanderthal origin,[93][94] due to interbreeding between Neanderthals and the ancestors of Eurasians in Northern Africa or the Middle East prior to their spread. Rather than absorption of the Neanderthal population, this gene flow appears to have been of limited duration and limited extent. An estimated 1 to 4 percent of the DNA in Europeans and Asians (French, Chinese and Papua probands) is non-modern, and shared with ancient Neanderthal DNA rather than with Sub-Saharan Africans (Yoruba and San probands).[95] Nonetheless, more recent genetic studies seem to suggest that modern humans may have mated with "at least two groups" of ancient humans: Neanderthals and Denisovans.[96]

While modern humans share some nuclear DNA with the extinct Neanderthals, the two species do not share any mitochondrial DNA,[97] which in primates is always maternally transmitted. This observation has prompted the hypothesis that whereas female humans interbreeding with male Neanderthals were able to generate fertile offspring, the progeny of female Neanderthals who mated with male humans were either rare, absent or sterile.[98]

[_bcspace]

Both groups were degenrate but for different reasons and in different ways. Someone with your views ought to steer clear of the HG Wells references.

Why? Free Market Capitalism is completely neutral. Whatever ills exist are brought by individuals or groups of individuals such as Morlock and Eloi.