Amazing to think humans have been around for well over a million years and this is how far we have come. Seems to me we should have colonies in space by now.
While this may be the earliest finding of H. erectus tools, other ancestors of ours were using simple Olduwan-style tools as far back as 2.4 million years ago. But it wasn't until 50,000 years ago or so that we really had the explosion in technology, art, etc. that allowed humans to take over the world. What's amazing isn't that that explosion didn't happen earlier, but that it happened at all.
Don't be disappointed. These things take time. Look how far we have come from floating in the primordial soup - that will cheer you up!
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.
"Amazing to think humans have been around for well over a million years and this is how far we have come. Seems to me we should have colonies in space by now."
In time, in time, remember we only discovered sex in the 1960s for example, don't be so impatient.
Well, there are Jawas on Tatooine. Evolutionary offshoot? And yes, one would think we'd be starting the whole colonization thing by now. Lace Mars with bacteria that feed on hematite to get some greenhouse gasses going and drop some algae in whatever liquid water there is. Or let Howard Dean loose.
Been held back by superstition