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[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 81 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

This gets posted a lot, but nobody ever seems to post what the thing was.

The answer is probably "other hominids". Humans (Homo sapiens specifically) co-existed with them for a long time and competed with them over resources.

Edit: and the genetically deformed (with whom it would be beneficial to not breed, at least from an evolutionary standpoint) and corpses or people with disease

[–] Delta_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 80 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Also corpses, I see it debunked pretty much every time it’s posted

[–] Jilanico@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So you're saying zombies used to be real? 😱

[–] Delta_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And the only reason they’re gone is because we stopped fucking them

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago
[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah they tend to make a face like that.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah. "Used to be". Let's go with that. Less paperwork.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

It could be a rock formation. Nobody says uncanny valley when its a sexy looking knot on a tree.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

To elaborate more, I think that it's because if humans have an aversion to other hominids and corpses, we wouldn't try to waste resources attempting to breed with them.

[–] june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We very much did bread with other hominids

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Well, perhaps not the ones that look uncanny then.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

That's on a knead to know basis

[–] Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

RealDoll has entered the chat.

[–] Delta_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Also corpses can lead to disease

[–] 404@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 months ago

See e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archaic_and_modern_humans

Corpses, illness, "bad genes" (asymmetry etc) seems like a more reasonable explaination in my ears, with interacting/breeding in mind.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Humans as a whole have never had any trouble killing other humans who looked just like them. I don't think such an instinct would have been necessary. And anyway the uncanny valley has more to do with revulsion than aggression.

[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah if you don't say that, it's way scarier because then it could be anything! Even... the...

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[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 3 points 2 months ago

Nah, too much distance between pockets of different pre-humans usually. There weren't a 10 million people on the world most of the time.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The thing is psychopaths. They still prey on us to this day.

[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

But we don't recognize them on sight, so can't be it.