I love this new meme.. I've got a lot of ideas but too little motivation
So here, make posts:
The Earth's orbit around the sun isn't circular, but an elipse
Buffalo Bill killed no buffalos, but bisons
Your head nude in space doesn't explode. You'll die, but in half a minute, without exploding
The Great Wall of China can't be seen from the space
Ostrich don't bury their head when threatened
Carrots don't make your eyesight better
Darwin didn't invented the phrase "fight for survival" (it was Malthus), nor "survival of the fittest" (Spencer), only "natural selection"
Cocroaches wouldn't survive a nuclear explosion
Thumbs up by the caesar didn't mean that the gladiator would survive, but the oposite
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
And when Socrates was dying, he talked about paying a chicken he owed not because he was so pshilosophical that he didn't care about death, but because he was high as fuck with opium, one of the ingredients used in the state poison
The general consensus at the minute is that waving flags/handkerchiefs meant spare the fighter, and a thumb down meant death (not picking an argument, just an ancient history tutor keeping up with modern finds)
I've read in a book I adquired at the Smithsonian that the confussion is because of a wrong interpretation of a paint, and that actually, the thumb down is the sword drawed, and up, the sword ready to decapitate the gladiator.
Please carry on, I love debates
And the correction gets it wrong.
Apes are a category of primates (which are a category of mammals). Humans are apes, as are bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and gibbons (gibbons are considered "lesser apes" whilst the rest are considered "great apes").
An ape is just a tailless primate.
I understand what you mean, but in my defense, this one was merely a poor choice of words, as explained in an earlier comment, and fortune cookies did originate in Japan, even though the ones we know developed in California. I'll try to do better in the future :)
It's isn't basing our knowledge on memes. You read one of these things and you said "wow, i didn't knew that, it's interesting, i'll learn more about it" and that's when you get the knowledge.
1. Homo Neanderthalensis are not a common ancestor of humans and other apes. They're not even an ancestor of our species of human (Homo Sapiens), we share a common ancestor (Homo Heidelbergensis). The common ancestor shared by Humans and other apes is much further back.
2. Evolution is not taking steps forward, it's changes which give an advantage in that particular environment.
3. Nature's not stupid, you are.
So here, make posts:
The Earth's orbit around the sun isn't circular, but an elipse
Buffalo Bill killed no buffalos, but bisons
Your head nude in space doesn't explode. You'll die, but in half a minute, without exploding
The Great Wall of China can't be seen from the space
Ostrich don't bury their head when threatened
Carrots don't make your eyesight better
Darwin didn't invented the phrase "fight for survival" (it was Malthus), nor "survival of the fittest" (Spencer), only "natural selection"
Cocroaches wouldn't survive a nuclear explosion
Thumbs up by the caesar didn't mean that the gladiator would survive, but the oposite
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
Please carry on, I love debates
Apes are a category of primates (which are a category of mammals). Humans are apes, as are bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and gibbons (gibbons are considered "lesser apes" whilst the rest are considered "great apes").
An ape is just a tailless primate.
2. Evolution is not taking steps forward, it's changes which give an advantage in that particular environment.
3. Nature's not stupid, you are.
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