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Re:Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900k years ago by frozenport on Thursday August 31, 2023 @05:46PM (#37344081)
I'd argue they didn't have too much humanity, or at least what differentiates us from Chimpanzees.
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Re:Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900k years ago by chrisco255 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @05:52PM (#37344139)
Most certainly they did by then. About 1.8 million years ago is when the hand axe (handheld stone axes used as weapons and for cutting) was first developed, and fire control was developed by 1.5 million years ago by earlier hominids.
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Re:Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900k years ago by psychphysic on Thursday August 31, 2023 @05:52PM (#37344144)
The article suggests control of fire is what lead to recovery of the population. So indeed quite a different time.
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Re:Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900k years ago by ahauxuueei on Thursday August 31, 2023 @05:59PM (#37344210)
By that time we had mastered fire by probably a million years already.
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Re:Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900k years ago by c420 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @05:52PM (#37344142)
Mastery of fire has entered the chat.
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