( Twelve minute read)

First, we have to settle a famous paradox: the egg came first.

The very “first chicken” mutated from a proto-chicken ancestor and hatched from an egg laid by that ancestor.

So the first true chicken didn’t lay the first egg—it came from it.

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A chimpanzee alive today is our evolutionary cousin, not our ancestor.

Yes it has been proven that about 6 to 8 million years ago, a single species of ancient primate lived in Africa.

We don’t have a perfect single fossil of this exact creature, but we know it existed through DNA and fossil lineages.

This population of primate’s split into separate groups:

One branch faced environmental pressures that led to walking upright, eventually evolving into the Homo genus (including us, Homo sapiens).

The other branch stayed predominantly in the trees, eventually evolving into modern chimpanzees and bonobos.

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If humans and modern apes came from an ancestral ape-like primate, where did that creature come from?

To trace the family tree backward, we have to look at the deeper history of primates:

Before there were apes, there were early primates.

Around this time, a group of primitive monkeys in Africa branched off.

This new group lost their tails and developed more mobile shoulder joints—creating the very first hominoids (the ancestor of all apes).

One of the earliest famous fossils from this era is Proconsul, a creature that had a mix of monkey and ape features.

If you go back further, those early monkey-like creatures evolved from tiny, tree-dwelling mammals called Euprimates (like Teilhardina).

They looked a bit like modern tarsiers or lemurs, featuring forward-facing eyes for depth perception and grasping hands instead of claws.

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Go back to the day the asteroids wiped out the dinosaurs.

The ancestors of all primates were small, nocturnal, insect-eating mammals (similar to modern tree shrews) that survived the fallout by living underground or in the debris.

So we go all the way back to tiny mammalian survivors that outlived the dinosaurs.

And of course the question remains, where did the tiny mammalian come from?

Your guess is as good as mine.

( microbes/particles] and on it goes.)

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To day there are over 8 million of us, living in 195 countries, talking about 7100 languages, practicing between 4,000 and 10,000 distinct religions, worphsing well into the hundreds of thousands, if not millions of gods, using roughly the energy of 170 million barrels of oil per day.

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Out of the global population, the breakdown is roughly:

 Men: ~4.17 billion (50.26%)  

 Women: ~4.13 billion (49.74%) 

Born: Approximately 363,000 babies are born every day.  

 Die: Approximately 174,000 people pass away every day.

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Right now, there are roughly 33 billion chickens on Earth at any given moment.

Global egg production currently sits at well over 1 trillion eggs every single year.

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2.5 Million to 300,000 years ago:

Our ancestors’ brains tripled in size. Managing complex tools and hunting in teams required massive mental processing power.

A likely genetic mutation altered the internal wiring of Homo sapiens.

Suddenly, humans began creating art, burying their dead with care, and speaking in complex languages.

This is the dawn of modern human self-awareness.

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Surviving in human groups is incredibly complicated.

To survive, you had to guess what others were thinking, spot liars, and form alliances.

We couldn’t outrun predators, so we had to out-think them by mentally planning ahead.

Human consciousness likely evolved as a “social simulator” to predict group dynamics.

Where we came from and where we going is still unknown.

We however have the power to get rid of all of us in a flash of a second, and help us we have on the near horizon Artificial General Intelligence.

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

But remember your brain, though, gives you a vivid inner world you’re in tier life is down to electricity signals.

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