Current Events > What did the ancestors of human beings look like at the time of the dinosaurs?

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any of you read anything on this subject?

Possibly a guppy

shrews

Little hamster things

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Shotgunnova posted...

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how do you know this?

Shotgunnova posted...

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The life after the meteor was a smorgasbord...

Verdekal posted...

The life after the meteor was a smorgasbord...

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They looked like squirrels.

https://www.inverse.com/innovation/oldest-human-ancestor-fossil-found-in-montana

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IMNOTRAGED posted...

https://www.inverse.com/innovation/oldest-human-ancestor-fossil-found-in-montana

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/2/3/AATNvJAADWlL.jpg

I never heard this one. I will look for a scholarly source.

Duh

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.210050

And more detail

https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/primate-origins-and-the-plesiadapiforms-106236783/

Republicans

Which time of dinosaurs? The stegosaurus had been fossilized for millions of years by the time the tyrannosaurus roamed the Earth

Hayame Zero posted...

Which time of dinosaurs? The stegosaurus had been fossilized for millions of years by the time the tyrannosaurus roamed the Earth

I was assuming the you know... original dinosaurs, but apparently the age of mammals AND dinosaurs is as close as we get here

IMNOTRAGED posted...

https://www.inverse.com/innovation/oldest-human-ancestor-fossil-found-in-montana

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Wouldn't it be wild if, millions of years from now, a branch of humanity evolved back into a similar species?

Solar_Crimson posted...

Wouldn't it be wild if, millions of years from now, a branch of humanity evolved back into a similar species?

Yes

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Blue_Target posted...

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should have been the first post

Quoted from my second link

The most comprehensive analysis to date of the relationships among plesiadapiforms, primates, and closely related mammals is by Bloch and colleagues (2007; Figure 3). The results of this analysis support the idea that plesiadapiforms are more closely related to primates than to any other group. These authors argued that plesiadapiforms should therefore be considered stem primates; they adopted the name Euprimates (Hofstetter, 1977) for living primates and any fossil forms that exhibit all of the features of modern primates listed above. It is worth noting, however, that not all researchers are convinced by Bloch et al.'s (2007) results. These workers generally equate the Order Primates with Euprimates, excluding plesiadapiforms from the order. This leads to a very different conception of what constitutes primate origins than discussed here (e.g., Soligo & Martin, 2007), with the order not appearing until nearly 10 million years later, when the first forms that share traits such as the postorbital bar and nails on most digits (e.g., adapoids and omomyoids) are first found in the fossil record (e.g., Rose et al., 2012).

Solar_Crimson posted...

Wouldn't it be wild if, millions of years from now, a branch of humanity evolved back into a similar species?

Weren't there crystal spiders involved, and them farming the little mammals?

Y'know. Makes you wonder what another intelligent species on earth might think of us, and if they would choose to remain hidden from people. Speaking of small rodents, I find that if you are patient, brave, kind, and understanding, and don't intend on trying to pet them, these creatures can approach you in the wild and even form a regular relationship of greeting, playing, and communicating on a basic level. Without necessarily expecting food, although they want it.

One got bold enough to hide behind my foot from another one, and repeated the behavior days later

Molecular research indicates the ancester should be 10 million years earlier.

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Although the age and primitive morphology of Purgatorius would suggest an origin of primates around 65 million years ago, molecular dates for the origin of the order are generally at least 10 million years earlier, well before the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (Springer et al., 2003). If this is the case, we may be missing or not recognizing a significant part of the early history of the order. Alternatively, this discrepancy could reflect problems with the assumptions underlying molecular clock models, such as constancy of evolutionary rate (Ho, 2008), and the difficulty of calibrating the clock (e.g., see discussion in Stauffer et al., 2001).