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Can someone tell me what Darwin theory is? Is it related to thermodynamics? Does it have something to do with the way a foot leaves an impression in a mud brick?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

4000 years ago humans were farming, living in cities and just starting to figure out writing.

Given how nicely centered the impression is, this was probably intentional, a very old foot selfie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

4000 thousand years ago?

You mean 4 million years ago?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Even our oldest common ancestors were only 2.2-2.5 million years ago. Homo sapiens is only about 250,000 years ago, and we basically instantly domesticated dogs. We've had dogs for 200,000 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The dog is a wolf-like canid.[7][8][9] The genetic divergence between the dog's ancestor and modern wolves occurred between 40,000 and 30,000 years ago, just before or during the Last Glacial Maximum[2][1] (20,000–27,000 years ago). This timespan represents the upper time-limit for the commencement of domestication because it is the time of divergence but not the time of domestication, which occurred later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_of_the_dog

We domesticated them roughly twice as far back as we domesticated cats (12,000y). Cats became domesticated alongside the use of agriculture. Cats started spending time around humans because agriculture brought prey for them (rodents, etc) to places where humans resided.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

op was making a joke about 4000 x1000 = 4000000