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It's comforting to know there wasn't any ice at the north pole 20Mi years ago, and humans survived just fine.
by trhr 3y ago
It's comforting to know there wasn't any ice at the north pole 20Mi years ago, and humans survived just fine.
- mpsprd 3y agoIn hindsight, this is most probably a joke, but I still looked it up. Earliest humans, Homo Habilis, appeared 2.4-1.4 Mi years ago.
- AlotOfReading 3y agoApes as a whole only split from other monkeys around 24mya, and genus Homo shares ancestors with chimpanzees about 7mya. Evolution happens both incredibly quickly and incredibly slowly depending on what you're comparing it to.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoYeah but the Silurian civilization is gone though :-/