by Tanada » Wed 08 Oct 2008, 07:03:59
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vampyregirl', 'I')f humans had never evolved or if God had never created us, depending on your beliefs, what would planet Earth be like today?
Humans =
Homo Sapien Sapien
Without us
Homo Neanderthalus would rule from Atlantic to Pacific north of say 40 degrees and
Homo Erectus would rule the rest of Asia while
Homo Ergaster would rule Africa. All of them were hunter/gatherer in both culture and resource exploitation.
Agriculture would not yet have been invented but all three of our co-existant species did quite well as H/G survivors. Given the spread of
H. Erectus through Indonesia and the spread of
H. Neanderthalus through Siberia it is highly likely that the former would eventually spread to Australia and the latter to the America's. Recent evidence demonstrates that
H. Neanderthalus was spreading through Siberia when they died out, that being the case they would have almost certainly have discovered Berningia and made it into North America by the time the Holocene meltwaters flooded the land bridge.
Most paleontologists beleive
H. Ergaster evolved into
H. Sapiens and many beleive that the refinement to
Homo Sapien Sapien only occured with the genetic bottleneck event circa 70,000 years ago. As an originally diverse species genetically speaking
H. Sapiens was very much like the other three, and probably not quite as smart as
H. Neanderthalus which holds the record for largest cranial capacity of any of us.