Anthropology

PoindexterOglethorpe

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16. Adapting to high altitude is not all that hard.

Tue Oct 31, 2023, 09:19 PM

Oct 2023

Unless you are talking extremely high altitude, above 12,000 feet.

I currently live in Santa Fe, NM, at 7,000 feet. I love it. I feel good. When I go to sea level I initially feel as if the air is too thick, but within a day or so adjust. Humans are for the most part endlessly adaptable. As would have been our not quite yet homo sapien ancestors. As will be our homo whatever descendants, should they get to exist.

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Two Million Years Ago, This Homo Erectus Lived the High Life [View all] sl8 Oct 2023 OP

Like to read anthropologically. cachukis Oct 2023 #1

I added it late - try hitting your browser refresh. sl8 Oct 2023 #3

Thanks. Saw it later. Great story about expansion cachukis Oct 2023 #5

As an aside, SpamWyzer Oct 2023 #6

Wow. I'm in Florida. Never occured to me to cachukis Oct 2023 #7

I replaced the photo. sl8 Oct 2023 #8

Sorry, did not scroll back high enough. cachukis Oct 2023 #2

No worries. sl8 Oct 2023 #4

H. erectus was the most successful species to date Warpy Oct 2023 #9

Humanity didn't start with humans cachukis Oct 2023 #10

Erectus was human Warpy Oct 2023 #11

Yes. I was referring to human like activity, thinking, cachukis Oct 2023 #12

Yes, and magpies. "Bird brain" is no longer an insult Warpy Oct 2023 #13

Our intellectual development comes from so many cachukis Oct 2023 #14

The excitement comes from speculating abut what's on the other side Warpy Oct 2023 #15

Adapting to high altitude is not all that hard. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2023 #16