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[–] Carighan 22 points 1 year ago

In other words, there's going to have been a moment where the last proto-human to do it hung off a tree branch with their feet for the very last time in the entire evolutionary branch that would eventually become us.

Wild to think about it, I agree.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] JaddedFauceet 7 points 1 year ago

last breeding with a neanderthal

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, of course I understood all of that.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

there's a forgotten chatroom somewhere out there, where you and your mates from middle school used to spend time on. at some point someone will send the last message, not even knowing it was the last one

imagine that but for proto-humans

[–] valkyre09 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like the last time I picked up my daughter. Couldn’t even tell you when it was, insignificant at the time.

(She’s not gone or anything, she’s just older now lol)

[–] Sketchpad01 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds like you should try picking her up again, just to prove a point

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yes :) this is what I mean. And we can go further back in time, beyond proto-humans. Our ancestry includes mammals, reptiles... all the way to single cells.