At every chronological estimation they should append 'at least as old as' while they present their results. You never know if something older comes up later.

Always worth asking how much these reconstructions reflect reality vs the assumptions built into the models

(Off topic) I’d like to think we get periodic impact events that put some new “code” on the planet and we get new species. That would be kinda dope.

I'm curious why humans evolved intelligence and chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans did not.

Out of africa is basically false, there were decently advanced walking hominids in asia a long time ago. Then they migrated west, africa was the origination, but that origination was not the ~50k years ago like was frequently claimed

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doctor banjo?

When the average life span was something like 30 years, why do all images look like they are 60+ years old? Is it a cognitive bias that we assume that people that are tens of thousands years old also look really old? :P

I always felt Chinese.

A lot of people here seem remiss to accept this but the claim was made, I think around 2018? And now the international community has gone and doubled checked - and it seems legitimate. 2025: the mainstream belief of descension changes.

What other base beliefs do you hold that will likely be false?

I can think of 5+. Our ancestors thought a lot of things for certain and died never knowing. Technological advancement is so fast nowadays, I hope we get to live through more.