Here is a timeline of our direct ancestors according to science. Note that some of this is in dispute, but more or less it goes like this (the creatures pictured are reconstructed or are like those in our direct line):
4,000 million years ago: Life begins.
3,900 million years ago: The first cell.
2,500 million years ago: The first to use oxygen.
2,100 million years ago: The first eukaryotic cell – the cell design that our bodies still use.
1,200 million years ago: The first to have sex!
900 million years ago: Looks kind of like a sperm cell. Has a tail and can swim.
600 million years ago: The first to have more than one cell, which leads to tissues of specialized cells.
580 million years ago: The first to have nerves, muscles and eyes!
550 million years ago: Looks like a flat worm. The first to have a brain!
540 million years ago: Looks like a worm. Has a heart and something like gills.
530 million years ago: Pikaia: Looks kind of like an eel and swims like one too. The first to have fins and a backbone of sorts. Lives at the bottom of the sea.
505 million years ago: Looks like a lamprey. The first to have a skeleton.
480 million years ago: Looks like a fish. Has a jaw and some scales. Has separate fins at the bottom.
390 million years ago: Still a fish but with strong fins that help it move in shallow water full of leaves and sticks and stuff.
365 million years ago: Looks like a newt. Walks on dry land: it has legs and lungs. Lives both in the water and on land.
300 million years ago: Looks like a lizard. Lives on land.
125 million years ago: Looks like a mouse. Has hair, warm blood and gives birth to live offspring. Its brain has a neocortex. Can climb small shrubs. It only comes out at night: it is the age of the dinosaurs!
55 million years ago: Looks kind of like a squirrel. Lives on the ground and in the lower branches of trees. Eats fruits and leaves. Has claws.
30 million years ago: Looks like a monkey. Lives in trees and is awake during the day. Eyes face forwards (giving it depth perception to swing through trees). Can hold things. Brain: 20 cc.
25 million years ago: An ape. No tail, can see in colour (to find ripe fruit), has a large brain for its size. Brain: 167 cc.
7 million years ago: The last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees. Brain: 350 cc.
3.5 million years ago: Austalopithecus afarensis: Lucy’s people. Has left the trees to live in the grasslands of Africa. Walks on two feet, eats meat, losing its body hair. The first to make tools. A scavenger, not a regular hunter. Hunted by saber-tooth cats (Dinofelis). Brain: 440 cc.
500,000 years ago: Homo heidelbergensis: The last common ancestor of humans and Neanderthals. Hunts, builds shelters of stone and wood, uses fire, buries his dead. Can talk to a degree. Black skin. Brain: 1230 cc.
135,000 years ago: Homo sapiens: Mitochondrial Eve, who lives in East Africa. Fully human. Adapts mainly through technology not biology. Brain: 1350 cc.
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So, like the saying goes, we’re just a blip on the radar as far as the timeline’s concerned (i.e. a canoe in the Pacific Ocean). According to certain science fields, we have a few billion more years (all things running forward) before our Sun gives out, so who knows what we’ll be like in 2,000,012 A.D. (another blip)!
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Great post, Abagond
Time seems so vast here…evolutions take millions of years , it seems
What blows my mind is,it seems at the first stages of being an embryo, we look like one of the first creatures that existed, I forgot the name, I only saw it on a docu….it seems we have the evolutionary past in our developement in us, from one of the earliast living things…..that has to mean something that is inside all of us that puts us in touch with all creatures and all evolution
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Darwinian and evolutionary theory are complete speculative nonsense for which the historical and archeological evidence just does not add up. The trouble is we’ve all been drilled to be believe this as fact. When its not!. For years scientists tried to find the so-called “missing link” between Apes and Humans. But they can’t and they never will!
I’ve already posed the question as to why it should be so important to believe that all life evolved independently of its own accord (following a big bang?) on this planet? While this may be conceivable its not by any means the only rational or logical explanation as to how this could have happened. The mass of evidence says otherwise – if you look for it and read it. Yet scientists and our educational institutions will insist that we believe, and we too convince ourselves, that billions of years of linear evolution is the only way it could have happened?
My question is why would people still want to insist in believing this drivel? Why would they be afraid to be believe otherwise?
This is a simple logical question. Why?
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I would have preferred to have a humanoid dinosaur body. These mammalian ones are flimsy as heck.
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Id like a crocodile heart, an eagles eyes, the speed of a cheetah , the ability to fly like a bird,the smell of a blood hound….
Kwamla, just to rephrase what I said, even if we can not prove its directly linear , our embryos , in the very early stage , do aproximate one of the most ancient creatures on the planet…
I could use some more links from you to address the non linear theory you are talking about…I could use some more information about that
One thing for sure, there is so much that is undiscovered and still buried , and , the next discovery could simply change the whole ballgame
I dont think I have to be tied to Darwin, but, he was a step up from the prevailing Western thinking at that time , and, if he isnt the complete picture, he captured part of the picture , since many fossils have lined up with some of what he said…but, I am open to other posibilities also
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Wait…what about Genesis?
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It seems to logically follow,I never had a problem with evolution biological or otherwise, however abagond should have added a picture of an asian and then a european as bioligical evoultion did not stop with african.
And we are still evolving.
Interesting how Kwamla is vemently opposed to this Idea/concept(evolution).
well kwamla whats your explaination and sources?
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No, you wouldn’t. You’d be smelling people’s feet and azz all day!
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This is fascinating. Just think about how if you traced your own ancestors back, from you to your dad to his dad to his dad, eventually you get to a fish who is your own direct ancestor.
One thing though, its not true that humans adapt only through technology, not biology. Since the first humans in Africa, there have been many genetic adaptations as humans spread around the world, which is of course why people form different parts of the world look so different.
The European tolerance of lactose is an example of recent evolution. 90-100% of east Asians are lactose intolerant while only 5-15% of British people are. The enzyme required to break down lactose is produced into adulthood in northern Europeans and this is a genetically determined trait, an adaptation to European diets/food sources.
Humans adapt through technology and biology, and ultimately our technological abilities are evolved.
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Ha ha ha, Someguy….but, if our noses were more evolved, we probably would relate to odors differantly….we all smell our own gas and take notes what the properties are, its the others that we hate to smell…hahahahaha…but, on second thought, scratch the bloodhound nose…hahahaha
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@ Mbuti:
That would imply that Asians or Europeans are “more evolved” than Africans, which is not true. While all modern humans are descended from people in Africa, the Africans of 100,000 years ago would not have been exactly like the Africans of today. Africans too have been evolving all this time.
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@kwamla:
It would be really interesting to hear what is your explanation to all this. Yes, there are certain aspects in this “development” theory BUT no one, not one person or think tank or any other organ, has been able to bring up any viable alternative explanation for the current scietifical theory for the birth of man. Not one.
From creationists to alien theories, not one of their explanations has been able to withstand scrutiny by scientists nor they have been able to explain inconsistensies in their theories AND when their explanations have been studied, it has turned out that they either a) have not understud the so called scientific theory in the first place b) have purposely falsified data and details to fit into their theories.
As for poor Darwin, his theory is so widely misunderstud and misrepresented in many parts today that I really recommend people to satudy itself, not the others explaining it from their stand point. Most common misconception is that Darwin somehow placed humanbeing on top of the evolutional pyramid. He did not, others did. Darwin also never claimed the survival of the fittest. Others did and used it as bases for example to “scientific racism”, race biology. Darwin simply stated that each spieces adapt to changes. There fore a common grass is as developed as humanbeing.
See, there is no value system in his theory. It is just an biological explanation how spieces came to be. Not a system of rising man above else. Others claimed and still do claim that darwinism is somekind of value system. It never was, or is.
As for man, many confuse the theories of origins of man and evolution theory. Even those, who propose that humanbeings developed in several places at the roughly same time (in Africa and Asia etc,) almost same way, DO NOT dispel Darwin or the evolution theory. What the proposal of multi origin of man proposes is simply that there are several birth places of mankind, not just one. That theory does nothing nor it tries to do anything for evolution theory itself.
As for this multiorigin theory, it is tempting for many, for it can be used for the support of racism, to show that there are several human races after all. However, there are several problems in it, such as the evidence etc. Also it does not take in to account the most reasonable explanation: man might have left Africa as a spieces much earlier than previously or now thoughed.
I just would like to see the evidence that somehow prooves that Darwin was wrong. I also would like to see evidence that prooves without a doubt that humanbeigns did not originate in Africa. Thus far, there has been none that has been able to convince any scientific community. At least none that withstands the evidence found in Africa.
As for the missing link: There is actually many missing links in many spieces. Humanbeing are just one. If one dismisses the whole evolution theory, one has to accept that this holds for every single spieces on earth. So either you explain how all the present day spieces appeared suddendly, not just man, or you don’t. If man did not have common ancestor with ape and other primates, if man somewhow just popped up on earth, then did all the other spieces from horses to hornets, from whales to lice, from polar bears to ants, from red wood to eastern grass etc. And to do so it takes quite a lot evidence. Not just the general feeling that man was made in alien laboratory and dropped off or that man simply showed up one day. Thus far no one has been able to do so.
If and when that happens, there will be a lot of commotion and re thinking, but untill that day, the evolution theory is the best we have. Remember, most explanations you have heard about it, are not the theory itself. I recommend the studying it before dismissing it. It is not a value system, it is not the explanation for unjustice nor it is bases for racism. Social darwinism has nothing to do with it but plenty to do with politics and values. not with evolutionary theory or mr Darwin.
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I am not going to single out anyone for this particular comment I’m about to make because it would probably be unfair. There is much in terms of history. and factual information that has been intentionally hidden from us. But slowly more of this information is now being revealed. But there is a problem here, or more specifically a challenge, which most people will face in the light of this revealing information. And that challenge is to their existing self indoctrinated system of beliefs about themselves.
The plain fact is much of what we’ve been told about our collective origins on this planet is simply not true. Now we can accept this premise and begin to question and do our own research to find out why this is true. Or we can reject it and close ourselves off to such a premise because it would be too much for our already collectively established and self-indoctrinated idea of who and what we are.
So I think we all need to be prepared to acknowledge why we are willing to accept or reject this premise. Not because the information is factually wrong. Its not. – The objective scientific evidence is there when needed to support it – But because, for other less rational reasons, we choose to not want to take on board such conscious changing information at this time. But that is OK as long as we understand why we are making that choice.
The following is a series of videos by Alex Collier from the 1990’s where he talks about the construction of Planet Earth from an informed ET source.
However, more research and other evidence can be found on my own blog here: http://kwamlaonfb.wordpress.com/
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Kwamla, nice article on iemanja….
I have to say, the information I saw , about a body of knowledge from ancient times, that is so advanced that it would know pi, the earth is round, the north magnetic poll , etc, is much more compelling that there could have been visitors from another planet than this information I am studying that you brought in…
How these people are describing things that you brought in, doesnt really go into any referances as to where the information comes from about these specific details they go into about the alian take overs..
For me, and Ive gone over this before, if you start at the ancient statues on Easter Island, and, start with a straight line that would go to through the Nasca lines , then past some ancient ruins in Mexico ( sorry I cant paraphrase the exact ruins , which would help , I know, because there are more ancient ruins this line will pass that I cant tell you either because I saw it in a documentary and I cant remember the names, a pity), crosses the ocean, goes through Dogon territory, then hits the Egyption pyramids, and it keeps going and passes very important ruins in countries I cant paraphrase now, my fault, but, the information is real.Then if it crosses the Pacific and circles the globe exactly to end up at the Easter Islands, the pi radius at the top of the circle would exactly be the magnetic North poll , which isnt the north poll we talk about, but is a major Earth reality, this magnetic North poll. And, these ruins if you check their dimensions , they would equal the “golden number”….
The Egyption pyramids have so many mathamatical dimensions and astronomical knowledge in its building dimensions that it is too much to be coincadence…For example, if you draw a circle on the outside of the bass of its exact dimentions, then you draw a circle on the inside of its base of those dimensions, the differance is the exact number for the speed of light…The Dogons knew about a star that could not even be seen by a naked eye back then…
The Nasca lines can only be seen from the air as far as making out what the design are…
If you ask me, things like this are much more compelling information than what the people you have brought in are talking about. That information I am saying, has to make me have an open mind because the implications of that are , there was ancient knowledge of Earth circumfrance, speed of light, pi, the golden number, incredible astronomical knowledge, the magnetic North poll, designs that were meant to be seen by flying high aircraft, etc etc etc
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@ B.R
Check out Graham Hancock and David Wilcock who have both covered and researched extensively the meridian lines of energy you seem obsessed with. They have both written and made videos extensively about this.
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http://rense.com/general61/vaman.htm
From India, this is compelling…did the Indians have a great imagination or is there some truth to it…
an ancient Indian vehicle was discovered in a Russian cave that had residue of mercury…Nasa is making research how to use mecury as fuel….
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http://www.thetruthbehindthescenes.org/2010/12/01/ancient-mayan-space-vehicle-reverse-engineered-and-they-flew/
From the Mayans…flying fish or flying craft?
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http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/comcom/vimana.htm
this is compelling
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http://www.world-mysteries.com/mpl_1.htm
Nasca lines, Peru, this is compelling
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Kwamla,Ok , I will keep checking out the info…sorry I havent gotten to that part yet…if anything, its good for all of us to actualy see these Nasca lines
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Kwamla,Im grooving on Graham Hancock now,I like it…
At least you know I have an open mind….I think I saw a docu with this guy talking about the San
I just get a little skeptical when some of the people starting to have specific details of who the alians are…without some kind of specific details
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into the Graham thing now…
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I know about Santo Daime , Ayauasca, never took it , and mushrooms….I always figured Santa and his hat and reindeer were pretty trippy…hahaha
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Ha, Ok, Kwamla, I see where he is going with it and with UFO’s..
Interesting
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I think a tremendously important aspect about evolution that we can address is extintion and why it happened , and i mean after the dinosaurs…
This article addresse the anomolies of the La Brea Tar Pits , versus the “entrapment” theories, with enormous proof that the bones were gnashed together and broken up and splintered in some cases , as through from some huge flood or disaster.
Same thing with Mammoth tusks and bones and other animals up in Alaska in certain areas and the reefs of Bear Island in Siberia are made up of gound up bones and tusks
They indicate a huge natural disaster on the planet about 12,000 years ago, as well as another one 55,000 years or so. If there was a tremendous world wide natural disaster, like ” earth crust displacement” , it could destroy much of mankind at that point and force mankind to start from scratch.Many of the Dogon and Egyption calanders can refer to 26,000 year cycles based on the Equinox of the stars rotating because of the Earths axis rotation.They may be trying to send us a message from the past abot this
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http://survive2012.com/index.php/pole-shift-evidence.html
Very in depth article,about huge huge amounts of bones of various animals destroyed together in various places around the world with a posible pole shift as the reason why
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Abagond:
Intelligent Design or Evolution? The gap in-between is the great mystery. I have a neutral stance on this, because, we simply don’t know. Both theories cancel each other out. We could have evolved from aquatic species, our bodies are 60% water, some more or less. A heavenly body could have created the earth, moon, and stars…Who Knows? The origins of humankind are a work in progress…Bottomline!
Tyrone
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Hello,
You have several informative posts on your blog. Regarding the evolutionists contention of human evolution, from a scientific standpoint we have to remind ourselves that these drawings of missing links are based on the artist’s imagination of what a “prehistoric human being” might look like.
Sometimes an archeologist will present a handful of remains to an artist. Based on the handful of remains (a single tooth, etc for instance) the artist will present a (usually dark-skinned – go figure) missing link. What these artists do is very controversial and hotly contested because this is the artistic liberty at work rather than objective science.
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For those of you who are interested in these subjects, check Zeresenay Alemseged’s researches he was the one who discovered the “Lucy’s child”.
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4,000 million years ago: Life begins.
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How?
By “accident?”
Despite his best efforts and advanced technology, why is the white man unable to reproduce such an “accident” in the laboratory?
Are you suggesting a random, unguided, purposeless game of chance has more ability than a mind?
What do you call such a phenomenon?
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@Kwamla: I will say that your alien theories cheapen the human race. I have seen these theories. They claim, albeit not overtly, but it’s so strongly implied it is hard to miss, that humans are simply too stupid to do much on their own, to figure out much on their own. Humans couldn’t have built the pyramids — they were too dumb to figure out how to exploit phenomena like leverage, etc. to lift and move heavy stones. (It’s been demonstrated by many that’s all it takes. We may not know the exact technique the Egyptians used, but it has been demonstrated by many enthusiasts that you can use the technology level of the time to lift and move stones weighing many tonnes with nothing more than muscle power and a few clever devices made from simple materials.) Some go even farther and say humans were too dumb to invent the things we have now in this modern age, like the LASER, etc. and it had to be ripped off from an alien spacecraft.
It’s the same thing that the White man did with Black people, only extended to apply to the whole human race. Fortunately, it doesn’t have much power — it’s just kooks sucking money from the gullible at most.
@B.R.: A crustal displacement of the kind proposed by “Earth Crust Displacement” theory is impossible without generating so much heat due to friction that it would melt the crust to form a planetary magma ocean. If that happened, nobody whatsoever would survive. Nothing would, actually. The continents are not floating on liquid like one may think due to certain naive pop sci ideas, but rather they are fixed on a mass of waxy, but still quite solid, rock. The waxiness is what allows for very _slow_ movements over time.
Two serious catastrophes ARE known, though, which are consistent with evidence: 1. the Toba volcano ca. 70,000 years ago and the end of the last Ice Age ca. 12,000 years ago. Both of these could have had major impact due to climatic changes.
@thwack:
The “white man” is not an all-powerful superbeing, you know.
The Earth had up to a billion years, many exagrams of solvent, teragrams of reactants, a gigantic energy source (the Sun and also the inner heat from its formation and Uranium), and so forth. Any man-made laboratory doesn’t even come close to satisfying that. What’s a lab flask compared literally to the ocean, or even a lake? The Earth could try zillions of times more possible configurations of molecules than you could possibly imagine in oodles of different kinds of environments and conditions. So you could say “accident”, but the accident was nearly inevitable given the conditions. Once the first simple self-replicator was formed, evolutionary processes could take over and begin building up the complexity. When it comes to evolution, btw: don’t think of someone randomly coming up with designs until they hit something. Rather, think of something growing throughout the possibility space in many directions at once, following the contours of the landscape to one form after another (each form is a different point in the possibility space), like an ooze. It doesn’t matter if the growth is determined randomly or deterministically, so long as it is sufficiently broad in its exploration of the possibility space.
And we’ve only been doing these experiments for what, the last 60 years? Life is probably THE most complex phenomenon in the Universe, and you think we should be able to replicate it with just 60 years of trying? We can’t even replicate sustained nuclear fusion like the Sun has with continuous net power output, which is conceptually a MUCH simpler process!
Whether or not there is “Purpose” to the universe or if it was created by “Mind” is a question that is not answerable by science. Science doesn’t deal in those kind of questions. If you want to use something else, like religion, philosophy, etc., to answer it, go ahead, but remember that if your method drifts out of that realm and into the area where science operates, it may come under critique from the latter. Same goes the other way, as well. The way I’ve seen it explained is that science explains “how”s, but not “why”s.
If you are arguing not for the universe but for just life on Earth, then what mind do you attribute it to? What, aliens? If so, where did they come from? How did they appear in the Universe? That just pushes it one step back. If evolution, then why not on Earth (Occam’s razor)?
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