I watched the david attenborough thing about evolution last night, i couldnt get into the first part, it didnt grab or hold my interest, but the 2nd part managed to grab my interest, it really is amazing that evolution started 500,000,000 years ago and human beings only evolved and appeared 68,000 years ago. We are so new on this planet compared to everything else and have only been here for such a tiny fraction of all the time since earth was created but we are by far the most numerous species on the planet, and lnhabit most corners of the globe, unlike most other creature, that cannot adapt to different environments so well.
Human history only goes back 68,000 years. We didnt exist before then, i find this mind blowing for some reason. And we have quite good records of some of that period, obviously our history records became more detailed since the written word was invented, just a fraction of time ago, in the grand scheme of things.
Attenborough reckons that one thing is for sure, and that is that evolution hasnt finished, and is still very much an ongoing process. Apparently 68,000 years ago there were loads of massive herbivores like mammoths and some creatures much bigger than even those, but human beings killed them all off, and the only such really giant outsized creature to survive was the elephant. I really wish i lived in an age where time machines had been inveneted, and i could fast forward a few million years to see whether humans have evolved into even more advanced creatures or if we've made ourselves extinct.
