Reading an article on the recent discoveries in human evolution. Was suspicious since the title was clickbaity: Six Recent Discoveries That Have Changed How We Think About Human Origins on some site called Singularity Hub, which seems like idiots trying to repeat science facts but they have an error in their press and it keeps putting woke ideology in their print.
There were many small examples, but the most egregious was this:
It correctly identifies that there were other species. But it gets the dates wrong and uses that to push climate bullshit, especially as the reason for their extinction. This is sloppy and an example of woke bias.
They did get a small fact wrong about which species is extinct, but most people don't realize NONE of the previous species of humanity are alive today, especially Homo Sapiens.
Many of the older forms of humanity were around as recent as 36k years ago, that we have evidence of. There may have been more recent, but we have no evidence, mainly due to the natural raising of sea levels as climates naturally shifts.
The article tried stating that the date of this extinction was 42k years ago and all went extinct due to climate change. Except, every form of humanity but the modern hybrid, Homo Sapiens Sapiens, went extinct at various times. None of those dates are definite, none of those dates are remotely near 40,000 BCE.
What is interesting, the author covered hybrids as part of modern human's genetic evolution, except, they forget that we are hybrids. We are not the same species from 100,000 BCE. Hell, sub-saharan black people in different parts of africa are different hybrids than white europeans, and the same goes for different asian ethnicities. Why? Because they each have different human ancestor mixes.
We are covered under the same identifier of Homo Sapiens Sapiens because we are all similar enough to meet the basic requirements. Give it another few dozen millennia and that might not be the case.
Well, I found one of your problems
Before Common Era. The typical science format.
Yes, but it's also a sign of Wokeness. Up until 20 years ago, it was BC/AD, but in the early 2000s proto-Wokies (for lack of a better term) started insisting it be written as BCE/CE since BC/AD (even though it is exactly the same dating system) might offend non-Christians.
It was being used in science texts in the 80s and 90s when I was in school. It was part of the science language.
He's right. This was an actual rare case of "da jooz" unashamedly changing something for their benefit, and I saw the change happening in my lifetime. (because BC is apparently offensive to them) It's ridiculous because it's the exact same year scale. The reason we are in The Year of Our Lord 2022 is because of Christendom. If people don't like why not switch to the Hebrew or Chinese calendars with completely different base? Why not make a new calendar based on actual scientific premises, like geological eras? We use the Western calendar because that's our culture. Not using BC/AD isn't a matter of science. Just pure activism. It would be like if academia stopped calling the moon the moon and said "Oh no, we now call it Satellite Prime. 'Moon' isn't scientific. It's too Euro-centric." Greater society should treat sCieNcE as a joke.
That is also right. It was being used infrequently and now is used more frequently. Like with social justice warriors, whoever yells and complains the loudest wins - real scientists who thought "this is stupid but whatever" lost and the activist "scientists" won.
This is all in agreement with your OP anyway.
Yeah. It was being used in the 80s and 90s because of woke bullshit. Just like ailurus described.