When Did We Become Fully Human? What Fossils and DNA Tell Us About the Evolution of Modern Intelligence

Singularity Hub ^ | 10/18/2020 | Nick Longrich

[SendShaqtoIraq]

when God created us, that’s when

[Still Thinking]

Does this mean there’s hope for liberals, given enough millennia?

[100American]

Not sure you ever did or will posting crap like this

[Bob434]

when God breathed life into man’s body

[abigkahuna]

There is an interesting theory that postulates that very early man gained eventual intelligence though eating magic mushrooms. During the hunting and gathering, very early man sort of micro-dosed on these mushrooms and began to expand the neural (is that a word) activity until they became us...

Makes about as much sense as anything else.

One other and totally unrelated fact I learned a few years back...is that our fore-fathers here in American were wacked most of the time drinking apple jack because no one trusted the water...So the Revolutionary war, consitution and most of the early part of our country’s history was conducted by a bunch of drunks...Ha! Makes sense.

[SunkenCiv]

Because I doubt it. We've had ancestors as smart as (or in the case of Democrats, smarter than) us for a really, really long time.

• Homo erectus, not humans, may have invented the barbed bone point
• Neandertals, Stone Age people may have voyaged the Mediterranean [2018]
• Controversial footprint discovery suggests human-like creatures may have roamed Crete [2017]
• Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing [2016]
• The Discovery that Revealed Ancient Humans Navigated the Seas 130,000 Years Ago [2013]
• Ancient Mariners: Did Neanderthals Sail to Mediterranean? [2012]
• Anthropologist suggests Mediterranean islands inhabited much earlier than thought [2012]
• The writing on the wall: Symbols from the Palaeolithic [2012]
• Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols? [2012]
• Seafaring in the Aegean: new dates [2012]
• Neanderthals were ancient mariners [2012]
• Stone-age toddlers had art lessons, study says [2011]
• Cretan tools point to 130,000-year-old sea travel [2011]
• Ancient hominids may have been seafarers [2010]
• Macro-Etymology: Paleosigns [writing 20,000 years ago?] [2005]
• Were Cavemen Painting For Their Gods? [2005]

[Buttons12]

I don’t know when I’ve seen so many assumptions in one place as I just read in that article.

[Nifster]

When God breathed His spirit into Adam

[reasonisfaith]

The theory of evolution is what happens when you string together facts with mere speculation.

[Reeses]

The Great Leap occurred 65,000 years ago, but not all groups participated equally.

Credit for IQs above 80 is owed to the fierce competition with the Neanderthals. Killing them off was essentially an IQ test of increasing difficulty. No peace treaty was ever possible with them so it was kill or be killed. Africans did not participate in this 20,000 year war, which is reflected in modern genetics.

[LimitedPowers]

One explanation:

[LibWhacker]

You question my humanity? I’m not sure how any Christian could say or even think something like that.

[LibWhacker]

Man, how I would like to jump into a time machine and go back and watch it in person!

[sauropod]

.

[LibWhacker]

LOL, must’ve been a very frustrating 42,000 years!! Or they used nets!

[Just mythoughts]

Why is it so hard to consider that each and every individual ‘race’ were NOT created to the Heavenly Father's specifics... WHO decided there need be an ‘IQ’ test... What is different in the Heavenly Father's IQ test and some flesh man's deeming of what is ‘high’ IQ?

The Heavenly Father created all souls... and it is the devil that has spent the past 10,000 years plus, creating division amongst the races .. WHY? Because it ‘sells’, some just love to promote their high IQs... and solve nothing. Why the Netherthals population views themselves above the rest ... but are they really viewed that way in the sight of the Creator ... we will find out.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

That leaves the Democrats out of the developmental pool.

[ALASKA]

For as long as I can remember, anyway.

[minnesota_bound]

The curse are the naysayers, the politicians of time who stand in the way of mankind improving.
Look at who we have today running things!!

[PIF]

Neanderthals were assimilated not killed off in some fanciful war.