Remember the Neanderthal theory?
Jan. 7th, 2016 07:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marjaerwinI don’t think that Autism represents a Neanderthal neurotype in a Modern-dominated society.
(Which is what Leif Ekblad at rdos.net proposed.)
But I do think Autism could be some past population’s neurotype, and a lot of neurodiversity and gender diversity could represent some past populations’ social dynamics.
And I do think the Upper Paleolithic revolution, the emergence of abstract art, representational art, and possibly of language, could come from the back-and-forth of neurodiversity and gender diversity after distinct human populations contacted each other.
Autism is underdiagnosed, but there seems to be as much neurodiversity and gender diversity in all human populations, so if these come from different past human populations, then they were different human populations in Africa, among the main ancestors of Modern Homo sapiens sapiens.
(Which is what Leif Ekblad at rdos.net proposed.)
But I do think Autism could be some past population’s neurotype, and a lot of neurodiversity and gender diversity could represent some past populations’ social dynamics.
And I do think the Upper Paleolithic revolution, the emergence of abstract art, representational art, and possibly of language, could come from the back-and-forth of neurodiversity and gender diversity after distinct human populations contacted each other.
Autism is underdiagnosed, but there seems to be as much neurodiversity and gender diversity in all human populations, so if these come from different past human populations, then they were different human populations in Africa, among the main ancestors of Modern Homo sapiens sapiens.
