03-26-2018, 12:00 PM
Last night I finished watching the three part series, "Stories From The Stone Age". While somewhat interesting, IMHO it seems extraordinarily limited in scope of the "Stone Age".
The show only represents the stone age dating back approximately 10,000- 12,000 BC, and suggests that "people" only lived in small nomadic bands across the "fertile crescent" to that time frame.
A glance at Wikipedia claims evidence of stone cutting tools goes back as far as 3.3 to 3.5 Million years, which only represents what has actually been discovered and documented to date.
Another glance into DNA between Neanderthals and humans shows indeed, virtually no relation. 3% might be stretching it. DNA of humans and chimpanzees, on the other hand, is overwhelming. We share 96-99% of our DNA with chimps and great apes, but I guess we already knew that.
A search of animals that share human DNA is practically unbelievable. We are super close to all kinds of monkeys, but would you believe one of the next closest common DNA links would be.... Cats! Possibly 90%! Unfortunately, we are close to mice and cows as well.
Never the less, my curiosity has been piqued. Fortunately, there are lots of titles left to view on Amazon, and of course lots of information online.
Thanks for this thread, Mr. Ken!
The show only represents the stone age dating back approximately 10,000- 12,000 BC, and suggests that "people" only lived in small nomadic bands across the "fertile crescent" to that time frame.
A glance at Wikipedia claims evidence of stone cutting tools goes back as far as 3.3 to 3.5 Million years, which only represents what has actually been discovered and documented to date.
Another glance into DNA between Neanderthals and humans shows indeed, virtually no relation. 3% might be stretching it. DNA of humans and chimpanzees, on the other hand, is overwhelming. We share 96-99% of our DNA with chimps and great apes, but I guess we already knew that.
A search of animals that share human DNA is practically unbelievable. We are super close to all kinds of monkeys, but would you believe one of the next closest common DNA links would be.... Cats! Possibly 90%! Unfortunately, we are close to mice and cows as well.
Never the less, my curiosity has been piqued. Fortunately, there are lots of titles left to view on Amazon, and of course lots of information online.
Thanks for this thread, Mr. Ken!