Absolutely yes. I’m excited too. The hand axe dates back to 2.7 mya [1], which precedes homo sapiens (~350 kya) by > 2 million years. Our ancestors were probab

Absolutely yes. I’m excited too. The hand axe dates back to 2.7 mya [1], which precedes homo sapiens (~350 kya) by > 2 million years. Our ancestors were probably homo erectus at that point. We were gathering around campfires, cooking meat and sharing a meal ~1.9 mya [2], again likely homo erectus. Lots of culture predates humanity, but humanity is such a gradient (thanks to evolution). It’s like we need a different word, broader than humanity, to describe our entire genetic history, all the way back to abiogenesis. Then, instead of our identity being so homo-sapiens-centric, all about this bipedal smarty-pants, we could additionally identify as having been fish, and small scurrying mammals, and single celled organisms, and anything else our ancestors have “been” along our path. Anyone know of such a word? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_axe#History_and_distribution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_axe#History_and_distribut... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campfire#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campfire#History