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Originally Posted by Wiggles
is 1.3mill before first findings in Africa?
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Here's the deal,
We modern humans or Homo Sapiens Sapiens, came about maybe 100,000 years ago. We're supposedly branched off from a line the same as the chimpanzee.
Hominids, our classification go back several millions of years. Although they weren't modern humans like us, the walked upright, used tools, had communities. Nature selected only a few that survived. We primates, including us, chimps, gorillas, bats ( a new addition ), monkeys are the ones that survived. Bats however haven't changed much in 60 million years. That's why they're called the ultimate survivors.
The findings in Africa date the rise of hominids back millions of years. Yet the footprint discovered may show a 'modern human' footprint or a Homo Erectus, another earlier version having been in N. America.
So in capsule form, the footprint, IF a real footprint shows that something humanoid may have been here 1.3 million years ago. That says either we 'modern humans' are fuck older than previously thought OR an earlier version of humanoid made it to the Americas far, far earlier than expected.
But that all depends on whether this IS a footprint.
In conjuction, Dr. Bruce Cornet a paleobotanist had discovered footprints, tools, even a petrified finger with a metal ring on it in rock in Texas that's at least 25 million years old. That debate rages on.
I grew up studying under the best of the best of archaeologists and every 10 years the age of modern humans goes back more and the age of hominids goes back more. When I was in college 20 years ago, it was maybe 3 million years. Now it's gone back so far I've forgotten.
We keep digging and learning is all I can say.
