With Halloween only weeks away, it’s time to take a terrifying drive down evolution road.
Imagine your father stood up beside the highway, and behind him stood your grandfather, and behind him stood your great-grandfather, and behind him stood your great, great-grandfather etc. Now imagine you got in your car and started driving down this highway, beginning at your father, and ending at your most ancient ancestor.
Assuming you drove beside this line of ancestors at 100 km/hour which is pretty typical for a highway, it would take you just under 20 seconds to pass an ancestor who looked kind of Arab:
After driving just three minutes beside the line of ancestors, you’d pass an ancestor who looked like a black man, at least if you believe the computer generated reconstruction of how folks looked 70,000 kya, endorsed by geneticist Spencer Wells:
Drive for half an hour, and you pass ancestors who look like this:
Drive for 90 minutes, and you pass ancestors who look liked this:
Pumpkin Person 
So how long do you have to drive before your ancestor was marine life?
How come these are all men? What if my ancestors identified as trans women?
PP
It’s possible a primate-looking species evolve psycho-cognitively?? I mean without physical phenotypic changes?
Anything’s possible. In fact there are scientists like richard Klein who believe the opposite happened. We evolved anatomically modern human phenotype by 200,000 years ago but did not evolve a fully modern brain until 50,000 years ago because it wasn’t until after 50,000 years ago that figurative art emerges
Yes something related with big prognatism of primates and lack of forehead size. Forehead is related with the most recent brain areas human brain evolved.
But seems you’re right that anything’s possible.
Deal With It claims the original humans were hermaphrodites. She seems to have an agenda.
This blog has taken on the identity of some sort of anthropology specialist nerdfest forum. I’m not sure my talents and good looks are needed here anymore.
Why is the picture of a woman driving? Are you suggesting only women can drive? Why isn’t it a german shepherd or a daschund? Animals can drive too. What is your species vproblem with the canine community pumpkin?
Claire Danes > Jesus > cartoon African caricature > Lucy in the sky…