Human Evolution

Humans in their current form (Homo sapiens) evolved around 200,000 years ago.

Prior to that was the archaic homo sapien which includes a number of variations of archaic homo sapiens (Homo heidelbergensis, Homo rhodesiensis, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo antecessor) who emerged approximately 500,000 years ago.

Approximately 70,000 years ago the archaic homo sapien became marginalized by the modern homo sapiens (us) which means it took approximately 130,000 years of breeding and natural selection for the old species to no longer be the dominant one.

More interestingly, however, is the fact that archaic homo sapiens definitely co-existed 30,000 years ago and most probably co-existed up to 10,000 years ago.

This also means that in the span of 300,000 years (the time when archaic homo sapiens emerged to when modern homo sapiens did) approximately 4 different variations of archaic homo sapiens had evolved and existed.

This definitely leads to the very real possibility that since modern humans have existed for over 200,000 years that there are evolved versions of modern homo sapiens that walk, talk, breed and interact with the previously modern homo sapiens without either party knowing it.

Very interesting info you've pulled out. I'll have to look into this more.

Another interesting thing I read about was that we didn't evolve from primates per se...

rather, both us and primates share a common ancestor. So basically, what happened, is that some time in the past, there is a split in the evolutionary branch of humanity... one branch went and formed the primates which are of different races (chimpanzees, gorrillas etc,) and one branch went and turned out us, humans, with all our different races (whites, blacks, indians, east asians, arabs, etc)

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