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humanity is 10k+ years old and the world is billions of years old. Quick is subjective.

• fhsm 3y ago
  “+” is doing a lot of work there… https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22335 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22335
  • wernercd 3y ago
    depends on what you define as humanity. Primordial ooze? Bipetal animals? The current cut of ape? civilization? Of course the + is doing a lot of work because it's a fuzzy concept and doesn't change the fact that "quick" is just as relative.
  • bigfryo 3y ago
    Yeah you can certainly make the case for Humanity being at least 100,000 years old, and even make a case for it being 500,000 years old or even a million years old. Homo was controlling fire probably half a million years ago and crafting stone tools 2 million years ago or more