The "Did you know" thread.....

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Originally Posted by xyzde69

Adding to this previous message, did you know that homo sapiens sapiens appeared to its genetic form about 200'000 years ago in Africa. That means about 10'000 biological generations (maybe between 10'000 and 12'000).
That means that about 10'000 generations ago, we (all the humans living on Earth today), for sure, had the same common ancesters.
That's really really recent.

I remember seeing a documentary several years back that they could trace all people of jewish/hebrew heritage to 13 women. For the life of me I can't remember how far back they said it was. Still, that they could trace millions of people's lineage back to that small a number of ancestors is something that I found astonishing.

I came across an article recently that they found hominid fossils in Southeast Europe, that predate the African ones by 200,000 years.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/...ientists-find/