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[Lamel]

Exactly how old is the human species? I thought humans were much more ape-like at that point in time.

I think they should have said "hominid"; Homo Sapiens, modern humans, are not that old.

Edit: I think Homo Sapiens came into being 500,000 - 200,000 years ago.

Everyone here should watch the documentary "walking with cavemen" from BBC. It's excellent. I love reading about human evolution, and just to think what went on back then, and its profound consequences for us.

 

[Lovely Salsa]

I think they should have said "hominid"; Homo Sapiens, modern humans, are not that old.

Edit: I think Homo Sapiens came into being 500,000 - 200,000 years ago.

Everyone here should watch the documentary "walking with cavemen" from BBC. It's excellent. I love reading about human evolution, and just to think what went on back then, and its profound consequences for us.

That documentary is wrong as its highly unlikely that homosapiens lived with homo erectus 35k years ago

Its facinating that in just a few hundred years we accomplished so much. Yet we stayed/lived basically the same for like 100k years

 

[Josh7289]

Fascinating

 

[Darth Sonik]

The 3 part BBC documentary series "Origins of Us" by Dr. Alice Roberts really gets into great detail of how humans evolved, and what selection pressures helped shape us.

I highly recommend it.

BBC Origins of Us 1 of 3 - Bones

BBC Origins of Us 2 of 3 - Guts

BBC Origins of Us 3 of 3 - Brains

 

[Lamel]

That documentary is wrong as its highly unlikely that homosapiens lived with homo erectus 35k years ago

Its facinating that in just a few hundred years we accomplished so much. Yet we stayed/lived basically the same for like 100k years

Homo erectus has been found from 1.8 million years to 140,000 years ago.

I think anatomically modern homo sapiens came to being 200,000 years ago.

Source: wikipedia.

 

[Sheroking]

I'd think erosion would have worked those prints over by now, right?

Not unless the conditions were abnormal for preservation, which the article asserts.