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| The current timeline of Human evolution, as accepted by mainstre | |
| am scholars | |
| By: Orion Date: February 10, 2018, 7:32 pm | |
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| The timeline of human evolution, according to John Pickrell. | |
| -55 million years ago (MYA) | |
| First primitive primates evolve | |
| -8 � 6 MYA | |
| First gorillas evolve. Later, chimp and human lineages diverge | |
| -5.8 MYA | |
| Orrorin tugenensis, oldest human ancestor thought to have walked | |
| on two legs | |
| -5.5 MYA | |
| Ardipithecus, early �proto-human� shares traits with chimps and | |
| gorillas, and is forest-dwelling | |
| -4 MYA | |
| Australopithecines appear. They have brains no larger than a | |
| chimpanzee�s � with a volume around 400 � 500 cm3 -, but walk | |
| upright on two legs. First human ancestors to live on the | |
| savannah | |
| -3.2 MYA | |
| Lucy, famous specimen of Australopithecus afarensis, lives near | |
| what is now Hadar, Ethiopia | |
| -2.7 MYA | |
| Paranthropus, lives in woods and grasslands, has massive jaws | |
| for chewing on roots and vegetation. Becomes extinct 1.2 MYA | |
| -2.5 MYA | |
| Homo habilis appears. Its face protrudes less than earlier | |
| hominids, but still retains many ape features. Has a brain | |
| volume of around 600 cm3 | |
| Hominids start to use stone tools regularly, created by | |
| splitting pebbles � this starts Oldowan tradition of toolmaking, | |
| which last a million years | |
| Some hominids develop meat-rich diets as scavengers, the extra | |
| energy may have favoured the evolution of larger brains | |
| -2 MYA | |
| Evidence of Homo ergaster, with a brain volume of up to 850 cm3, | |
| in Africa | |
| -1.8 � 1.5 MYA | |
| Homo erectus is found in Asia. First true hunter-gatherer | |
| ancestor, and also first to have migrated out of Africa in large | |
| numbers. It attains a brain size of around 1000 cm3 | |
| -1.6 MYA | |
| Possible first sporadic use of fire suggested by discoloured | |
| sediments in Koobi Fora, Kenya. More convincing evidence of | |
| charred wood and stone tools is found in Israel and dated to | |
| 780,000 years ago | |
| More complex Acheulean stone tools start to be produced and are | |
| the dominant technology until 100,000 years ago | |
| -600,000 YA | |
| Homo Heidelbergensis lives in Africa and Europe. Similar brain | |
| capacity to modern humans | |
| -500,000 YA | |
| Earliest evidence of purpose-built shelters � wooden huts � are | |
| known from sites near Chichibu, Japan | |
| -400,000 YA | |
| Early humans begin to hunt with spears | |
| -325,000 YA | |
| Oldest surviving early human footprints are left by three people | |
| who scrambled down the slopes of a volcano in Italy | |
| -280,000 YA | |
| First complex stone blades and grinding stones | |
| -230,000 YA | |
| Neanderthals appear and are found across Europe, from Britain in | |
| the west to Iran in the east, until they become extinct with the | |
| advent of modern humans 28,000 years ago | |
| -195,000 YA | |
| Our own species Homo sapiens appears on the scene � and shortly | |
| after begins to migrate across Asia and Europe. Oldest modern | |
| human remains are two skulls found in Ethiopia that date to this | |
| period. Average human brain volume is 1350 cm3 | |
| -170,000 YA | |
| Mitochondrial Eve, the direct ancestor to all living people | |
| today, may have been living in Africa | |
| -150,000 YA | |
| Humans possibly capable of speech. 100,000-year-old shell | |
| jewellery suggests that that people develop complex speech and | |
| symbolism | |
| -140,000 YA | |
| First evidence of long-distance trade | |
| -110,000 YA | |
| Earliest beads � made from ostrich eggshells � and jewellery | |
| -50,000 YA | |
| �Great leap forward�: human culture starts to change much more | |
| rapidly than before; people begin burying their dead ritually; | |
| create clothes from animal hides; and develop complex hunting | |
| techniques, such as pit-traps. | |
| Colonisation of Australia by modern humans | |
| -33,000 YA | |
| Oldest cave art. Later, Stone Age artisans create the | |
| spectacular murals at Lascaux and Chauvet in France | |
| -Homo erectus dies out in Asia � replaced by modern man | |
| -18,000 YA | |
| Homo Floresiensis, �Hobbit� people, found on the Indonesian | |
| island of Flores. They stand just over 1 metre tall, and have | |
| brains similar in size to chimpanzees, yet have advanced stone | |
| tools | |
| -12,000 YA | |
| Modern people reach the Americas | |
| -10,000 YA | |
| Agriculture develops and spread. First villages. Possible | |
| domestication of dogs | |
| -5,500 YA | |
| Stone Age ends and Bronze Age begins. Humans begin to smelt and | |
| work copper and tin, and use them in place of stone implements | |
| -5,000 YA | |
| Earliest known writing | |
| -4,000 to 3,500 BC | |
| The Sumerians of Mesopotamia develop the world�s first | |
| civilisation | |
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| Re: The current timeline of Human evolution, as accepted by main | |
| stream scholars | |
| By: Orion Date: February 10, 2018, 7:43 pm | |
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| In, 2015, the BBC published findings | |
| http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32804177 | |
| showing the | |
| use of tools 700,000+ years earlier than the current theory. It | |
| should change this timeline, pushing back the 2.5MYA mark back | |
| almost a million years. | |
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| Re: The current timeline of Human evolution, as accepted by main | |
| stream scholars | |
| By: Orion Date: February 10, 2018, 8:01 pm | |
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| The city off the Cuban coast that is half a mile submerged, has | |
| produced, what researchers are calling "urban artifacts" dating | |
| to 13,000 B.C. Trinkets, odds and ends, that sort of thing. | |
| It seems to me that civilization would be required to build | |
| "urban artifacts", again, this could put the timeline back by | |
| not an insignificant amount. | |
| To be fair.... [quote=Zelitsky] | |
| "What we have found is more likely remnants of a local culture," | |
| once located on a 100-mile "land bridge" that joined Mexico's | |
| Yucatan Peninsula with Cuba. Iturralde added that there are | |
| local legends of the Maya and native Yucatecos that tell of an | |
| island inhabited by their ancestors that vanished beneath the | |
| waves. Nevertheless, Iturralde does not discount the possibility | |
| that the rock formations are merely the result of the wonders of | |
| Mother Nature. �Nature is able to create some really | |
| unimaginable structures,� he said.[/quote] | |
| Of course, some of the shapes and pyramids were of granite, one | |
| of the harder stones on earth. Limestone breaks from waves and | |
| it can look like stairs and structures and steps, sure, but | |
| granite does not tend to do so. And it doesn't tend to fall | |
| into 8X10 blocks and pyramid shaped structures either. | |
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| Re: The current timeline of Human evolution, as accepted by main | |
| stream scholars | |
| By: Orion Date: March 30, 2018, 6:46 pm | |
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| An Iron hammer has been found in London. It is 99% iron, and | |
| the handle has started to turn to coal. The process by which | |
| organic material turns to coal is said to take over 100 million | |
| years. | |
| Here is a hammer, 99% pure iron, with a coal handle. Not only | |
| does this find not fit any scientific timelines regarding human | |
| evolution, it should completely change our understanding of | |
| history. | |
| If it is an anomaly, researchers have yet to explain how and | |
| why. | |
| This is standard practice regarding mainstream scientific | |
| ideology; If something does not fit conventional rhetoric, it is | |
| ignored. But the he literal mountains of evidence are starting | |
| to become harder and harder to dismiss. | |
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| Re: The current timeline of Human evolution, as accepted by main | |
| stream scholars | |
| By: Idahogirl Date: April 3, 2018, 12:54 pm | |
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| I just saw this post & thought it was cool. What happened to | |
| dinosaurs anyway? | |
| https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/dinosaur-footprints-discovered-scottish-island/ | |
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| Re: The current timeline of Human evolution, as accepted by main | |
| stream scholars | |
| By: Orion Date: April 6, 2018, 7:19 pm | |
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| This is really amazing. It suggests that intelligent life | |
| existed ...co-existed... with dinosaurs, T-rex even. That's a | |
| connection pretty far removed from conventional wisdom...yet | |
| here is a very tangible connection between intelligent life and | |
| the dinosaurs living at the same time...remarkable. | |
| The mass extinction of the dinosaurs is another story | |
| altogether....how did just the big guys die out, while so much | |
| else lived on? Asteroids? a great extinction? Perhaps a nudge | |
| here and there from mother nature .... or the powers that be... | |
| are indeed taking interest in Human life. | |
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