The Zanclean flood seems to have occured 5.3 million years ago, while the genus Homo has emerged 2.5 million years ago. Another way to look at it is that the f

The Zanclean flood seems to have occured 5.3 million years ago, while the genus Homo has emerged 2.5 million years ago. Another way to look at it is that the first human was closer to witnessing Lee Sedol's win against AlphaGo than it was to seeing that flood. Humans started developing their first language around 1.8 million years ago. Unless apes were able to somehow express the idea of a flood before having a language, it seems unlikely.