Re: Homo Erectus Traits in Hss

On Aug 19, 7:04 pm, Tom McDonald <kilt...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
J.LyonLayden wrote:
On Aug 18, 11:53 pm, "J.LyonLayden" <JosephLay...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Evolutionary superiority has nothing to do with the length of
time involved. The early inhabitants of the earth, soon after (or
even perhaps during) the Hadean era were far superior to us, more
than 3.5 billion years later. We could not survive ten minutes in
the environment in which they flourished.

tell me more about that, it sounds interesting.


In other words, when Hss lived along side Erectus soloensis, neither
were more or less evolved than the other, because they had both
evolved for the same amount of time.

If we were equally 'evolved', we would have been equally fit in
the environments we inhabited. Perhaps we were. At some point, in
some way, we were more fit to a changing environment than they.
Time, as I said, has nothing to do with fitness.

We may have survived the quaternary extinctions by chance, and for
some unknown reason they didn't.
We still have nearly 1.8 million years to go before we can claim that
we were as successful a species as homo erectus.
We still have about 100,000 years to go in order to say that we were
as sucessful as neanderthal.


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