by pale.emperor 13 Replies latest social entertainment
Saw this great video today showing the evolutionary process of humans in 3 minutes. The fossil record shows that 400 million years ago our ancestors were a type of fish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSSzn4bIwZg
Also, check out the below chart. Humans are relatively new to the earth. Now THAT is humbling in my opinion.
Humans are relatively new to the earth.
If earth's history was 24 hours, Homo sapiens arrived at twenty-five to midnight.
How on earth could anyone be impressed by that video?
I genuinely feel like I've missed out on 31 years of education. This is a fascinating subject.
How on earth could anyone be impressed by that video? - EQV
Because it is a beautiful presentation of our actual family history.
The fossil record for all of these ancestors can be seen in any good natural history museum.
cofty - If earth's history was 24 hours, Homo sapiens arrived at twenty-five to midnight.
The earth is about 4.6×10^9 years old, and humans like us (homo sapiens) are around for about 0.3×10^6 years, and 24 hours equal 86400 sec.
So, if earth's history was 24 hours, Homo sapiens arrived at 5.6 sec before midnight.
I don't understand your mathematical notation.
Edited to add - okay you sorted it now.
Homo sapiens are more like 200,000 years old.
I was going to say the same. The earth is 4.6 billion years old whereas humans have been around for about 200,000 years, depending on how you define humans.
200,000 divided by 4.6 billion = 0.00004347826087
There are 84,600 seconds in a day, so that means humans have been around for 3.76 seconds, if the entire history of the earth was 24 hours.
My result is different than amiable atheist because he uses 500,000 years rather than 200,000 years as the history of man.
If the history of the earth was 24 hours, then maybe mammals first appeared around about half an hour before midnight. That might be where the misunderstanding comes from.
edit: I see amiable atheist has changed his calculation from 500,000 to 300,000 for the history of man, so our results are now closer together.
Hello,
It seem to me that this video is "False" facts on human evolutionary.
I explain: The shows to us something like a fish , then some reptilians beings , then first mammalians , then homo ... as in the misrepresentation of human evolution 
But that is simply false ! totaly and definitly false !
The real representation of human evolution is that
We are "cousins" we have common ancestor with homo habilis , ergaster erectus ... but our ancestor were not , NEVER , habilis n ergaster nor erectus.
And in the video we see this false interpretation.
The author of video should add an phylogenic tree in his video to show us were are exactly the common ancestor ... between all species.
For me , it's a nice video , but it's a false and bad video for this misrepresentation of evolutionary facts !
Sorrry :(
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