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On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Ray Audette wrote:
> > Ray did you really just want to say the genus homo? as in Homo erectus.
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> Yes, prior hominids were very different than those ( Homo) that appeared at
> the beginning of the Pleistocene. Homo Sapiens first appeared about 400,000
> years ago. All of these Human creatures were evolved to fill a particular
> ecological niche - the ice age.
The beginning of the "ice age," or Pleistocene period, was 1.6
million years ago.
The ice age isn't a niche.
Anatomically *modern* homo sapiens appeared about 100,000 years
ago.
Cro-Magon, the homo sapiens with the long-range weapons for
hunting big game, appeared about 40,000 years ago.
This, at least, is what the anthropologists are saying now. Next
week it might be different.
Todd Moody
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