Not sure if you believe that the earth is only a few thousand years old, or you’re trying to say that all people that lived 150 years ago are dead by now, but humankind has been roaming this planet for more than two million years without refrigerators.
And quite successfully, if you consider that they conquered all continents without refrigerators, except the one where you really don’t need a fridge.
I am not the person you replied to but I believe they were referring to Homo sapiens being said to have emerged roughly 2-300k years ago, so 0.3 million, not “millions” (plural). Homo the genus might be a mil or two, but not the species, although you said “humankind” thus implying the species.
Maybe it’s just lost in translation. In my native language we’d call homo erectus etc. (primal) humans, so for me they are part of the humankind although they’re not modern humans.
I don’t know what I expected when I started scrolling through comments, but I certainly didn’t expect "how long humanity has survived depends on how you define ‘people’ "
I never said that you are homo erectus. That doesn’t change the fact that homo erectus were humans. And even if you really stick to the believe that humankind only started with homo sapiens some 20000 years ago, it doesn’t matter for the argument that people have survived a long time without being able to keep their food at a constant 4°C.
While what we currently define as humanity has only been around for about 300k years, this person might have gotten a definition that includes hominids in that, which would go back something liker 6 million years, and our direct “branch” something like 2 million.
You’re so smart for pointing out their mistake! Boy what a dumbass that commenter was to write all that and mess up that detail, it just ruins the whole argument completely
People haven’t survived millions of years.
Not sure if you believe that the earth is only a few thousand years old, or you’re trying to say that all people that lived 150 years ago are dead by now, but humankind has been roaming this planet for more than two million years without refrigerators.
And quite successfully, if you consider that they conquered all continents without refrigerators, except the one where you really don’t need a fridge.
I am not the person you replied to but I believe they were referring to Homo sapiens being said to have emerged roughly 2-300k years ago, so 0.3 million, not “millions” (plural). Homo the genus might be a mil or two, but not the species, although you said “humankind” thus implying the species.
Maybe it’s just lost in translation. In my native language we’d call homo erectus etc. (primal) humans, so for me they are part of the humankind although they’re not modern humans.
You are correct. The word “homo” literally means human.
Homo sapiens are the only living humans, but Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Homo Neanderthalus are all humans also.
However we usually use the term “archaic human” or even change human to “hominid” to prevent confusion between “modern humans”.
You weren’t wrong, but this is a kind of jargon which can confuse people.
I don’t know what I expected when I started scrolling through comments, but I certainly didn’t expect "how long humanity has survived depends on how you define ‘people’ "
We are not homo erectus though. So that’s a rather silly comparison.
I’m pretty homo erectus 😎
homo and erectus?
I never said that you are homo erectus. That doesn’t change the fact that homo erectus were humans. And even if you really stick to the believe that humankind only started with homo sapiens some 20000 years ago, it doesn’t matter for the argument that people have survived a long time without being able to keep their food at a constant 4°C.
FYI you accidentally dropped a zero, it’s 200,000 years.
It seems I’m not too good with numbers 😔 But it really doesn’t matter if it’s been 20k, 200k or 2M years, the point is, that it’s been a long time.
Clear evidence that Big Refrigerator is actually holding back our true potential!
While what we currently define as humanity has only been around for about 300k years, this person might have gotten a definition that includes hominids in that, which would go back something liker 6 million years, and our direct “branch” something like 2 million.
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You’re so smart for pointing out their mistake! Boy what a dumbass that commenter was to write all that and mess up that detail, it just ruins the whole argument completely