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19. But WHO would have been the
Fri Oct 30, 2020, 01:30 AM
Oct 2020

creators of a civilization hundreds of million years ago?

Homo erectus, the first human ancestor to have a human body form more like ours than like earlier ape forms, was the ancestor of all hominin forms prior to Homo sapiens as well as of Homo sapiens ourselves. He was the first of our ancestors to leave Africa. His earliest date is only around 1.8 million years ago. Although his body form was more like ours, his great intellectual and technological achievements were making stone tools and learning to use fire.

There was a time in earth's geological history when Antarctica had a warm climate. There was even a time, several million years ago, when India was attached to Antarctica. Its crash into Asia is what formed the Himalayan range. But, the warm Antarctic climate and the break away of India from Antarctica occurred long before there were apes on earth, let alone hominin descendants of apes.

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