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Originally Posted by Tuna
Umm so wrong on so many levels dude. You obviously have not gauged how slow the process of evolution is.
You know Lucy right? The earliest hominid found, the first examples of primates going bipedal. Well Lucy was very different from how we are to say the least. Lots of hair, small skull and small brain, no opposable thumbs etc. It took millions of years for one's like Lucy to start looking like we do now. Tore can fact check me on this one, I'm going off memory of an anthro class I took.  |
Hm, fact check? A lot happens in our understanding of human evolution and anthropology these days
Any facts I think I know could already be outdated since I don't try superhard to stay on top of this and stuff happens so fast, but .. At least I can say that Lucy at a bit more than 3 million years age is no longer the oldest reasonably "complete" hominid fossil anymore. She's been thoroughly beaten by
Ardi whose estimated age is about 4,4 million years!
Note that it's not certain that Ardi's lineage is the one that gave rise to modern humans though. Many hominid lineages have gone extinct. However, interesting for some europeans is that some of the european (
Homo sapien) lineages mixed with neanderthals some many thousand years ago. There are europeans who have about 4% of their genes coming from
Homo neanderthalis. So then neanderthals are not completely gone, but live on in some of us .. I think that's pretty cool!