@futurebird fascinating! Were faces just not important? Was loyalty to the group as a whole, not to individuals? That seems to be how other social animals work. Certainly, our adopted-as-an-adult dog settled in with us in ways that a displaced human might not - think how kids in blended families often struggle.
I have to link in this thread from yesterday about how love evolved. I can't help but wildly speculate about how these two conversations might interrelate.
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I'm deeply skeptical of suggestions that humans in prehistory were mentally radically different from modern humans.
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