[GourmetDan]

Amazing to think that people don't recognize our ability for rapid development as evidence *against* a 'million year' history for humanity.

Yes, it would be amazing and we should have colonies in space by now... if we had really been around for a million years.

Doink.

[mlc9852]

Exactly my point!

[Alter Kaker]

Amazing to think that people don't recognize our ability for rapid development as evidence *against* a 'million year' history for humanity.

Why? You're confusing cognitive and morphological evolution.

Yes, it would be amazing and we should have colonies in space by now... if we had really been around for a million years.

Maybe, if anatomically modern humans had been around for one million years, but we haven't been. I also think you more than slightly discount the costs associated with the earliest paleolothic tool technologies -- the jump from no tools to the simplest stone tools to more complicated, designed stone tools represents a much greater cognitive shift than the jump from chariots to corvettes.

[orionblamblam]

> Amazing to think that people don't recognize our ability for rapid development as evidence *against* a 'million year' history for humanity.

Really?

Really?

Really?

Yeah. All this time and some peoples have just *blazed* forward.