butchcranton t1_ja4ccio wrote
Reply to comment by PatrickAplomb in There's been tens of thousands of generations of humans, yet even those just 3 generations back are already forgotten by most living humans. by batsofburden
Anatomically modern humans are about 200k yrs old. About 20 years per generation --> ~10k generations.
PatrickAplomb t1_ja4cg8g wrote
That’s still not tens of thousands
butchcranton t1_ja4couj wrote
One ten(s) of thousands
PatrickAplomb t1_ja4ct2e wrote
That’s fair I guess
Agile_Coyote_6483 t1_ja4g8ve wrote
Yeah i remember working this out when i was trying to argue to someone that youre not that unrelated to most living things on this planet. Even a banana is basically a distant cousin if you think about it
butchcranton t1_ja4gi3l wrote
Yep. All of us living things are the great (xN) grandchildren of bacteria.
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