[PIF]

So modern humans have been around for only about 0.00002 fraction of earth’s age.

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The origin of anatomically correct humans through mDNA dating has been pushed back to 300,000 BC. So the question arises, what were we modern humans doing for the 293,000 years before ‘modern history’ began?

[entropy12]

I guess without guns, without anti-biotics, without decent shelters, without agriculture, they were simply busy surviving lions, lack of reliable food supply, covid-18 (lol), the ice age etc.

[entropy12]

I trace the explosion of science to the invention of internal combustion engine. That freed up humans from drudgery work to have free time for thinking at higher levels.

[entropy12]

Actually I think the steam engine preceded internal combustion engine.

[minnesota_bound]

#18 Democrat like politicians were in the way of progress.