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College level American History courses are much more interesting and less full of complete lies.


Yeah, I hate all those homos too.

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I know.

It still bores me to tears now, however - high school already did too much damage. To be honest I don't understand it, really, why I don't like it so much. Military tactics of American soldiers during the Civil War? Boring. Military tactics of Japanese soldiers during Boshin War at around the same time? Oooh, ahh. Social problems with the industrial revolution during the turn of the century America? Boring. Social problems with the industrial revolution during turn of the century Europe? Interesting! The colonization of the US? Boring. The colonization of Brazil at the same time? Wow, wee, I wanna know more!

I dunno. It is pretty irrational. My hatred for American history is almost (almost) as irrational as my hatred for the hard sciences. Hatred here as "f*ck this I don't want to deal with it" rather than a total disrespect for the discipline, of course. Or maybe because it's just too familiar, and everyone talks about it and everyone (should) know about it, and it gets trite and repetitive for me. Well, that's probably just the result of high school, again. I don't know.

Oh, yeah, and I forgot: I hate history from a Eurocentric point of view - or any "centric" or nationalistic point of view, for that matter, but especially Eurocentrism and American-centrism. In the last few years I have realized, to my horror, that it's more widespread than I previously believed, with even a few reputable historians believing in it. If anything, I think this is partly now one of the reasons I want to pursue my degree in history: to ensure that I can annihilate it from the face of the planet, or die trying.

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The 20th Century, and especially the first decade of the 21st.

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The reason for that is that every single palaeoanthropologist wants to be remembered as the one that found the "missing link", so they all call the fossils they find a new species. A palaeontologist i know once taught me that it's a lot simpler to divide direct human ancestors to three groups: Australopithecines, Erectus and species near it, and Sapiens, and species near it.

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The British Medieval period. It's basically a bunch of farmers being hit by knights, who were hit by lords, who were hit by the king, who was hit by God.

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Isn't that pretty much medieval (Catholic) Europe in a nutshell (except for the periphery states)?

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Yeah, Richard Dawkins had a short rant about how daft these people are being. Basically, he points out that if the fossil record was absolutley perfect, one could line them up and be unable to tell each from its ancestor or decendant yet everyone would still try to put the mother in one species and the daughter in another.

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South Asian history bores me. Chinese history has also always bored me for some reason.

The overdone splitting is particularly bad among the Australopithecines. IMO the Australopithecine and human species are:

Australopithecus anamensis
The most basal Australopithecine.

Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy, et. al.)
ancestral to the Robust Australopithecines. includes the spurious A. aetheopicus.

Australopithecus africanus
Ancestral to Homo. Most of the spurious Australopithecus species belong here.

Paranthropus robustus
Paranthropus boisei
The "Robust" Australopithecines.

Homo habilis
Basically A. africanus with a slightly bigger brain.

Homo rudolfensis
Known only from a skull and a few leg bones, but seems to have been a larger body size like a modern humans, H. Habilis was smaller like the Australopithecines.

Homo erectus
Includes the spurious species H. ergaster, H. antecessor, and H. florensis. Was fully human below the neck.

Homo heidebergensis.
The common ancestor of Neanderthals and Modern Humans. Some populations may have survived in West Africa as late as 17,000 years ago.

Homo neanderthalensis
The Neanderthals and the newly discovered "Desinovans".

Homo sapiens
Ourselves, of course. Though all non-Africans have some H. neanderthalensis in them.

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No. They do not.

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Actually they do. And most non-european non-africans have some Denisovan in their genome too.

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Source?

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Isn't it quite common of people of non-African decent, like myself and the majority of the word, to have Neanderthal DNA? I mean one could even go as far to suggest that early Homo Sapiens even intermixed with, apart from Neanderthals, other species in our Family. Also, interbreeding with a species that had been living outside of Africa for thousands of years before we migrated and thus adapted to the environment would have great advantages for the new migrants, I would think so anyway.

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And here's more about the interbreeding, this article also mentioning the denisovans:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/scien ... .html?_r=1
(Too lazy to find the original research paper)

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The problemme is that that is based on a hypothesis, just as the few other interbreeding theories are. 1 - 4% isn't that high, and can be attributed to genetic drift. Another study have contended that up to 14% of modern European DNA is admixture, but that didn't make the news paper.

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@cyberxkhan U.S. history is boring because there is no such thing as 'American Culture', Zompist is just citing popular (manufactured) culture, overconservitivized hand-me-down occidental culture, and a miniature travel guide to the country. The only thing remarkably cultural was the Kennedy assassination date.

Cold war hisory taught 2007 on or oddly specific US history is pretty interesting.

The most boring history period has to be the US civil war, so unbareably forced and everyone thinks I am missing the point because I think it's repetitive and obvious (which it is). You can't learn ethical morals from history.

The worst time to be alive in has to be the 1930s. All that narcissism and disease would probably kill me.

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I editted the post to explain why.

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Everything in science is based on hypotheses. Some just happen to be supported by facts more than others, and some are not supported by any facts. Genetic drift is also a possibility, but interbreeding is, i think, more propable option, considering that the populations that remained in Africa don't have these mutations.

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Forming a hypothesis is only step 1.
If one can't find the facts to support a hypothesis, that hypothesis should be revised.

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