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« on: December 21, 2014, 11:35:45 pm »
I'm not an expert concerning paleontology, but I do not think that the proof of the existence of humans would completely vanish within just 1 million years, given the fact that we know about dinosaurs who died out like 65 million years ago.
If something similar to mankind had existed earlier, I do not think that in a direct evolutionary competition it would have been replaced byy reptiles/dinosaurs as, as we know, mankind can be pretty stubborn when it comes to maintaining their place in the sun.
A possible theory could be that this first mankind would have been wiped out by a disaster or sth similar with the rptiles taking over the empty spot later on. But if this would have been the case, I wonder if we wouldn't have a proof of this disaster (As I said, I know little about paleontology and don't know what is possible today).