Chapter 95 The mysterious evolutionary blank period of human beings
"So what I'm telling you is, what is right now is what is considered truth."
"It doesn't always have to be right."
"Even the most authoritative people have limitations."
Then a picture was projected behind Ye Zhen.
I saw in this picture, there was a famous primitive man on it.
From the hunched primitive man at the beginning, he gradually changed into a standing modern man in sequence.
"Everyone has seen this picture."
"It has appeared in our biology textbook." Ye Zhen said this picture.
It is what the world considers to be the theory of evolution, the picture of human evolution.
"I've seen this picture, it's in the biology textbook."
"Yes, I still remember it now!"
"No, do you want to tell me that this is wrong?"
"It's really funny, how could the textbook be wrong!"
But some people have already thought of the example Ye Zhen gave before.
Authority is not trustworthy, and scientists are not always right.
Isn't it the text "Edison Saves Mom" in the previous Chinese textbook?
There is also the ancient text "The Story of Peach Blossom Spring" that is well known to the world.
Ye Zhen just smiled lightly, "Actually, this picture has been passed down for a long time."
"This is not a picture of human evolution at all."
"This is the race that coexisted with us humans at that time."
What?
After hearing Ye Zhen's words, everyone felt that their world view had been subverted.
This picture that everyone has seen countless times and cited by many scientists and teachers is actually wrong?
"Impossible! How could it be wrong."
"You must be lying!"
"Yes, this picture is officially recognized as a picture of human evolution."
"It's still written in my textbook! It's written like this in many books!"
I saw Ye Zhen shaking his head, "Everyone in the world thinks this is a diagram about human evolution."
"But I didn't expect that the author was trying to show the era at that time."
"How many other races exist in the same era as our modern human ancestors?"
"What you see on this picture are actually us Homo sapiens, Denisovans, Neanderthals, etc."
"These people all lived together with our human ancestors Homo sapiens at that time."
"But starting from a certain point in time, the rest of the human race disappeared strangely."
"Only our ancestors, the current Homo sapiens species, are left."
"Scientists still have different opinions on why there is only one species of Homo sapiens left?"
In terms of physical strength, Homo sapiens cannot compare to Neanderthals.
In terms of brain capacity, even the 1500cc brain capacity of modern humans is compared with the 1500 to 1750cc brain capacity of Neanderthals.
It's also a bit off. Brain capacity represents wisdom to a certain extent.
But our ancestors were able to win and completely exterminate the opponent.
This is still an unsolved mystery in the scientific community.
"If we really do what Darwin's theory of evolution says."
"Natural selection and survival of the fittest, the ones who survived should be the smarter and stronger Neanderthals."
"And not our modern Homo sapiens."
This is a very simple and easy-to-understand truth.
Others are stronger and smarter than you, and you can still beat them.
And they exterminated others.
There are no Neanderthals in the world today.
"The second thing is that the process of human evolution lasts for millions of years."
"Evolution from the apes to the humans we are today."
"Have you ever thought about a question, if humans really evolved."
"Then there must be various intermediate species in the process of evolution."
"That is, fossils in the process of evolution."
"But look." Ye Zhen wrote on the blackboard behind him.
Australopithecus lived 14 to 8 million years ago
Australopithecus lived 4 to 1.9 million years ago
Ape man lived between 1.7 and 200,000 years ago
Australopithecus is what we call great apes, still apes.
"Did you see it? There was a gap of 4 million years between ancient apes and great apes."
"During this period of time, no biological fossils were found that transitioned from ancient apes to great apes."
"The same goes for the transitional period from great ape to ape man, which was a gap of 200,000 years."
"The ancient ape is what we usually call the forest ancient ape. At that time, it still lived in the trees.
Then the scientific community said that a group of ancient forest apes evolved.
From the trees to the ground, this is a very remarkable progress.
From forest ancient ape became Australopithecus australopithecus, which is Australopithecus australopithecus.
Australopithecus is also known as the direct ancestor of humans. There is a very famous example here, which is "Lucy". A female Australopithecus fossil excavated by biologists and archaeologists.
Considered to be the origin of humanity.
Most of the fossils found during human archeology are one or two skull fragments or teeth.
The Lucy skeleton fossil is almost complete and is more than 3 million years old! ”
"Why was Lucy so famous back then? Because these scientists only found this relatively complete fossil evidence."
"What about the rest of the free time?"
"Nothing was found at all, so where did the large blank time go?" Ye Zhen's explanation made everyone fall into deep thought.
If evolution is correct.
Then the chain of evidence for this evolutionary process should be very complete.
"The gap between these two periods is too long."
"Is it possible that it hasn't been found yet?"
"You are stupid. It's only in these millions of years. We can find so many dinosaurs in tens of millions and hundreds of millions of years."
"Could it be that something happened in this blank period? Aliens? Gods? Or creatures from high latitudes?"
It's true that many viewers are now starting to think more freely.
The evolution from Australopithecus to today's Homo sapiens only took more than 3 million years.
But the blank period from forest ancient apes to australopithecines lasted 4 million years!
Enough for humans to evolve again!
What is written in our textbooks now is that humans have experienced 14 million years of evolution, from the forest apes to the current Homo sapiens.
"Everyone, take a look at these two blank periods." Ye Zhen's voice brought everyone's thoughts back
"There was a gap of 4 million years between the forest ancients and Australopithecus. In the second gap, there was a gap of 200,000 years between Australopithecus and ape man."
"Did you find anything?"
The audience looked at these two blank periods, one was 4 million years and the other was 200,000 years.
How long?
wrong.
The audience is in deep thought.
"Is there any problem with this? Isn't the blank period the biggest problem?"
"That's right, why are there no corresponding transitional fossils found in these two periods?"
"No wonder the so-called Lucy has only been publicized so far. It may be that only this fossil of human evolution has been found."
Ye Zhen clicked on two blank periods.
“Don’t you think it’s a coincidence?”
"The two blank periods are the most important stages of human evolution."
"One is the stage when forest ape comes down from the tree and becomes australopithecine."
"The other is the stage when Australopithecus becomes ape-man."
"Both are qualitative evolutions!"
"Why did there happen to be a blank period at these two points in time?"
But they didn't find any fossils from these two periods.
Or maybe they found it, but it was too scary to announce?
Ye Zhen's words were like enlightenment, making everyone's heads buzz.
"Does everyone still believe in the so-called theory of evolution now?"
"Do you believe that humans evolved purely naturally?"
In fact, it is not that there were no other scientific hypotheses during this blank period.
This is the so-called water ape theory. One theory is that there was a huge flood that year.
The forest apes were forced to go to the sea to survive, and then evolved into sea creatures.
This is the water ape, because changes in the environment forced them to come down from the trees and fall into the sea to survive.
It has lived in the water for millions of years.
Then some aquatic apes evolved onto land and became Australopithecus.
This explains the blank period and also explains why the deep forest ancient apes descended from the trees.
But there is a huge loophole, there are also no fossils.
If there really are aquatic apes, there should be a race of people like mermaids.
That is, a half-human, half-fish existence.
But I haven't found it yet.
Maybe they are still alive and still surviving somewhere in the deep sea?
However, this is just a hypothesis that is not recognized by the mainstream.
The current official mainstream theory is still the theory of evolution on land.
"Is there anyone who still firmly believes that the theory of evolution is right?" Ye Zhen just said in a very calm tone.
Everyone’s doubts and abuse at the beginning have subsided.
Because the facts and evidence are before everyone.
Everyone’s mindset began to loosen.
Something like the stamp of thought began to fall off.
"Is the theory of evolution really wrong?"
"I...impossible, how could the textbook be wrong?"
"That's right, I have always learned this way since I was a child."
"Didn't humans really evolve naturally?"
(End of chapter)