Can someone tell me what Darwin theory is? Is it related to thermodynamics? Does it have something to do with the way a foot leaves an impression in a mud brick?

  • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
    49·
    2 months ago

    Human era is predicted to begin 10k bc or something, by then human are already human. 4000 years ago is like yesterday lol.

    Edit: lol, didn’t realize i multiposted, sorry :/

    • Skua@kbin.earth
      45·
      2 months ago

      10,000 BCE is just the approximate beginning of agriculture too, anatomically modern humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years. Even the predecessors to those anatomically modern humans were pretty damn human-looking

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
      18·
      2 months ago

      12,000 years ago is about when we as humans decided to stop picking up our entire lives and moving on every winter.

      Or, possibly more accurately, when the semi permanent settlements we’d been using became permanent either because the crops we’d been working at raising started doing really well, and/or, because moving just wasn’t an option anymore.

      About 40,000 years ago we started painting, and doing other creative things.

      200,000 years ago the first modern humans evolved in Africa. It took 100,000 years before we were capturing fast moving prey. Another 50 thousand to wipe out all of our bipedal competitors.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        First thing we did was domesticate dogs. We’ve found evidence of dogs being part of our tribes as early as ≈200,000 years ago. I’m honestly not sure which came first, fire or dogs.

        • Wogi@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          Fire.

          Control of fire and cooking food predates humans. It’s part of the reason we developed such large brains.

    • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip
      13·
      2 months ago

      Homo Sapiens Sapiens (us) is generally agreed to have arrived on the world scene about 160k to 90k years ago in Africa, and genetic comparison + climate reconstruction shows that we started migrating out of Africa, first into the Middle East, about 50k to 60k years ago.

      So… an anatomically modern human footprint in the ME would have to be about 15x older than this one to be any kind of unexpected.

      Further, 4k years ago in Mesopotamia is… not unexpected at all, in two ways:

      1 The Sumerian civilization can be archeologically traced back almost to 4000 BCE, which is 6k years ago.

      2 A 4k old footprint human in mesopotamia … is not even out of expectation for a young earth creationist, as that biblical timeline would include such people as roughly those that are supposed to have built the tower of Babel.

    • azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      I think some fundamentalist Christians believe the earth is 4000 years old only.

      Garbage in garbage out.

  • nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de
    19·
    2 months ago

    4000 years ago humans were farming, living in cities and just starting to figure out writing.

    Given how nicely centered the impression is, this was probably intentional, a very old foot selfie.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 months ago

        Even our oldest common ancestors were only 2.2-2.5 million years ago. Homo sapiens is only about 250,000 years ago, and we basically instantly domesticated dogs. We’ve had dogs for 200,000 years.

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 months ago

    4000 years ago people were already trying to make machines with gears and stuff, what the fuck are you on about?

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
    3·
    2 months ago

    No, no, you guys don’t get it - the “mud brick” was a science device used in an experiment comparing genetics and carbon dating! The top part of the brick was used to display results in a clear way - if a footprint showed up that meant that some future Darwin* guy will be full of shit. If a cock-print showed up Darwin would be correct.

    *and his grandpa and thousands of years other people that debated and outlined in detail the exact same theory but could never gather enough evidence to go against the Church - I mean people bred livestock and mushed up plants to get the selected traits to their offsprings since before written language, ofc evolution was a known process (not to mention family members looking alike with same traits)

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
        2·
        2 months ago

        I mean, theoretically yes, sure, but how would you counter the electromagnetic fields to even get close enough to harness it?

        (Also if a foot/cock mud brick actually displays a foot-cock then it’s bricked, you need to manually restart it, recharge it, and leave it to sundry. A footcock is an ancient predecessor of dickbutt, now sadly an extinct, lost, and long forgotten meme from dead civilisations.)