Comment on How did living in caves not backfire on cavemen?
youngalfred@lemm.ee 8 months agoThat makes sense - never considered cave artifacts to be an example of survivorship bias before
Comment on How did living in caves not backfire on cavemen?
youngalfred@lemm.ee 8 months agoThat makes sense - never considered cave artifacts to be an example of survivorship bias before
DivergentHarmonics@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
The whole of paleontology/paleo-anthropology has this problem because for remains of organisms to be preserved certain conditions must be met, which is not the case everywhere at any time.