“If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface after say a million years. And then you hope that one of the intelligent species will walk around and find small pieces of you.”- Louise Leaky
Two million years ago at Lake Turkana in Kenya, our ancestors Homo erectus, walked the planet. This, a major fossil site today has given rise to the theory that the mitochondria of the WHITEst human in Europe has evolved from a BLACK woman there.
But at that period of evolution, this good earth was ruled by huge dinosaurs.
65 million years ago something strange happened and all the huge creatures are wiped out of the face of this planet. They say an asteroid hit the planet Earth to start a chain of events. And a mammal called Homo Erectus ( our ancestor) could survive that odyssey.
What if that asteroid would have been 5 minutes early or 5 minutes late, it would have missed this good earth and the Jurrasic people would be still walking this planet. And what’s 5 minutes in the face of 65 million years.
Homo erectus was the first human ancestor to leave Africa and begin its spread across the globe. We evolved essentially from an African stock at about 200,000 years. And we only left Africa about 70,000 years ago. Our modern civilization evolved around 7000 years ago. Nuclear bombs developed only 75 years back. At this rate this Sapiens will self annihilate in coming 75 years.
The total history of Homo Sapiens when compared with the 150 million years spread of Dinosaurs is a tiny speck. (Pic ) in the evolution timeline. Yet humans are bent upon erasing that tiny footprint as quickly as possible.
Every species will go extinct. Someday we Sapiens will have to go. But this species that developed the syntax (subject, verb object) roughly 50000 years ago ( no other species achieved that) will soon become a line on the timeline of evolution because of its own choice.
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