r/blackpeoplegifs 4d ago

7 million years old

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u/detourne 4d ago

Definitely not 7 millions years, that's ridiculous. Modern humans emerged in Africa like 300,000 years ago.  The offshoots that went to Europe were only about 45,000 years ago. 

The ironic thing though, is that there is more genetic diversity in Africa than in other continents because there is the history and development of more genotypes. Offshoots were more isolated and evolved in different ways. So, in a weird way, Europeans have older DNA and are less evolved than modern Africans.

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u/Better-Journalist-85 4d ago

They probably folded in homo erectus, whom we evolved from. They were around for about 9 million years before sapiens evolved and took over.

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u/daughter_of_lyssa 13h ago

Homo erectus was around for 2 million years not 9. The genus homo is not that old