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Frank and Schmidt imagined an advanced civilization before humans and pondered whether it would "be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record". [2] They argue as early as the Carboniferous period (~350 million years ago) "there has been sufficient fossil carbon to fuel an industrial civilization comparable with our ...
The great apes (Hominidae) show some cognitive and empathic abilities. Chimpanzees can make tools and use them to acquire foods and for social displays; they have mildly complex hunting strategies requiring cooperation, influence and rank; they are status conscious, manipulative and capable of deception; they can learn to use symbols and understand aspects of human language including some ...
A hammer made from reindeer horn similar to those used by the Bromme culture was found in 2016. The discovery pushed back the earliest evidence of human presence in Lithuania by 30,000 years, i.e. to before the last glacial period. [39] Asia, Southeast Asia: East Timor: 42: Jerimalai cave: Fish bones [40] Australia: Tasmania: 41: Jordan River Levee
The early modern human vocal apparatus is generally thought to have been the same as that in present-day humans, as the present-day variation of the FOXP2 gene associated with the neurological prerequisites for speech and language ability seems to have evolved within the last 100,000 years, [124] and the modern human hyoid bone (which supports ...
Human history or world history is the record of humankind from prehistory to the present. Modern humans evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago and initially lived as hunter-gatherers. They migrated out of Africa during the Last Ice Age and had spread across Earth's continental land except Antarctica by the end of the Ice Age 12,000 years ago.
Such life might range from simple forms such as prokaryotes to intelligent beings, possibly bringing forth civilizations that might be far more, or far less, advanced than humans. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Drake equation speculates about the existence of sapient life elsewhere in the universe.
Sentience, like consciousness, is a concept sometimes mistakenly used to refer to the concept of intelligence and sapience, since it does not exclude forms of life that are non-sapient (or more broadly non-intelligent or non-conscious). [6] The term extraterrestrial civilization frames a more particular case of extraterrestrial intelligence. It ...
Realistic humanoid automata were built by craftsman from many civilizations, including Yan Shi, [19] Hero of Alexandria, [20] Al-Jazari, [21] Haroun al-Rashid, [22] Jacques de Vaucanson, [23] [24] Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, [25] Pierre Jaquet-Droz and Wolfgang von Kempelen. [26] [27] The oldest known automata were the sacred statues of ancient ...