November 13, 200520 yr Humans wouldn't have stood a chance millions of years ago. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Says who? As long as it's bigger than us there's nothing we can't out-think & destroy. It's the smaller stuff that gets the better of us. If not for a handful of miraculous people in our history we would have become extinct long ago.
November 14, 200520 yr QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Nov 13, 2005 -> 12:27 PM) Says who? As long as it's bigger than us there's nothing we can't out-think & destroy. It's the smaller stuff that gets the better of us. If not for a handful of miraculous people in our history we would have become extinct long ago. Nope, I'm pretty sure a neandrathal would not have stood any chance back in the day. I would guess there was a very good reason man did not live during that time period. First man was too stupid to survive that crap.
November 14, 200520 yr QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Nov 13, 2005 -> 08:41 PM) Nope, I'm pretty sure a neandrathal would not have stood any chance back in the day. I would guess there was a very good reason man did not live during that time period. First man was too stupid to survive that crap. Dorky question, but didn't the neandrathal line die out? And we evolved from a separate line, homo erectus (I think)? Just wondering.
November 14, 200520 yr QUOTE(Soxy @ Nov 13, 2005 -> 07:46 PM) Dorky question, but didn't the neandrathal line die out? And we evolved from a separate line, homo erectus (I think)? Just wondering. Homo erectus is currently believed to be a specialization of the Homo ergaster line and which died out ca. 200,000 ybp and is not a precursor to modern human populations. Homo sapiens idaltu is, I believe still the oldest known H. sapiens subspedcies, and it's about 160K ybp. Which Homo line it deroved from is still not yet agreed on, but there is a substantial temporal and morphological gap between this subspecies and the latest known occurrence of Homo erectus. Modern man is most likely derived from the European (Cro-magnon) Homo sapiens line which came out of northern Africa more than 100K ybp. EDIT to ad: Soxy, you are right, Homo neanderthalensis was also an evolutionary dead end, having died out 30K ybp. Published studies within just the last 1-2 years does have another congener, Homo floresiensis persisting as late as 12K years ago. So wild to think of a time when modern man and a number of Homo congeners simultaneously existed. Edited November 14, 200520 yr by FlaSoxxJim
November 14, 200520 yr QUOTE(kapkomet @ Nov 14, 2005 -> 12:29 AM) Oh stop that. OK, OK, I admit I still giggle like a schoolgirl when I see the name Homo erectus. Is that better?
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