Here's the puzzle: Homo sapiens have existed for roughly 300,000 years, and the video says people survived at least four earlier interglacials with milder, more predictable climates. None produced agriculture or cities. The video argues that, if earlier humans were equally intelligent and conditions were favorable, climate cannot be the sole explanation for civilization's much later emergence. 🤔
Video argues prior interglacials challenge climate as civilization's sole trigger
Key facts
- Fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, show that Homo sapiens existed by about 300,000 years ago.
- The video says humans lived through at least four earlier interglacials with milder, more predictable climates.
- Earlier interglacials did not produce agriculture, cities or civilization; these developed much later, during the Holocene.
- The video argues that earlier humans were equally intelligent but did not build cities, so climate alone cannot explain civilization's delayed emergence.
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worldhistory.org
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nature.com
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Early modern humanen.wikipedia.org
The earliest fossil evidence of early modern humans appears in Africa around 300,000 years ago, with the earliest genetic splits among modern people, according ...
Our species arose at least 300000 years agohumanorigins.si.edu
Fossils from Jebel Irhoud cave, Morocco, are now considered the oldest members of our species yet found. Dating to about 300,000 years old, the ...
Homo sapiens - The Smithsonian's Human Origins Programhumanorigins.si.edu
During a time of dramatic climate change 300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens evolved in Africa. Like other early humans that were living at this ...
An Evolutionary Timeline of Homo Sapienssmithsonianmag.com
300,000 Years Ago: Fossils Found of Oldest Homo sapiens Homo Sapiens Skull Reconstruction. Homo sapiens originated on that continent.
Timeline of human evolutionen.wikipedia.org
Event. 300–130 ka, Reconstruction of early Homo sapiens from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco c. 315 000 years BP. Neanderthals and Denisovans emerge from the northern ...
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