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Considering it took us roughly 100,000 years to go from Tier 7 to Tier 3 (26th century), that must mean that the human race appeared roughly 200,000 years ago in order for us to have reached Tier 3 in the past. Does this hold up with our real-world current knowledge of human pre-history? Basically, was there enough time to become space-faring?--[[Image:PENGUIN4.gif|15px]]''[[User:FluffyEmoPenguin|<span style="color:black; font-family:Verdana">Fluffy</span><span style="color:gray; font-family:Verdana">Emo</span><span style="color:black; font-family:Verdana">Penguin</span>]]<sup><small>([[User talk:FluffyEmoPenguin|<span style="color:gray">ice quack!</span>]])''</small></sup> 17:11, 2 January 2011 (EST) | |||
Considering it took us roughly 100,000 years to go from Tier 7 to Tier 3 (26th century), that must mean that the human race appeared roughly 200,000 years ago in order for us to have reached Tier 3 in the past. Does this hold up with our real-world current knowledge of human pre-history? Basically, was there enough time to become space-faring?-- | |||
:I don't think the humans that ventured out into the galaxy would be recognisable as such today, at least not physically. The first Homo species diverge from Australopithecus around 2.4 or 2.3 million years ago, and [[Wikipedia:Archaic Homo sapiens|archaic Homo ''sapiens'']] appear between 400,000 and 250,000 years ago. Modern Homo ''sapiens'' has come a long way, but has done so sporadically - short bursts of advancement and occasional relapses back into barbarity, ie; the Dark Ages following the fall of the Roman Empire. I think the timeframe we have available leaves ''plenty'' of room for ancient humans to have built up a small interstellar empire. -- [[User:Specops306|<b><font color=indigo>Specops306</font></b>]] [[halofanon:user:Specops306|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>Qur'a 'Morhek</sup></font></i></u>]] 17:38, 2 January 2011 (EST) | :I don't think the humans that ventured out into the galaxy would be recognisable as such today, at least not physically. The first Homo species diverge from Australopithecus around 2.4 or 2.3 million years ago, and [[Wikipedia:Archaic Homo sapiens|archaic Homo ''sapiens'']] appear between 400,000 and 250,000 years ago. Modern Homo ''sapiens'' has come a long way, but has done so sporadically - short bursts of advancement and occasional relapses back into barbarity, ie; the Dark Ages following the fall of the Roman Empire. I think the timeframe we have available leaves ''plenty'' of room for ancient humans to have built up a small interstellar empire. -- [[User:Specops306|<b><font color=indigo>Specops306</font></b>]] [[w:c:halofanon:user:Specops306|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>Qur'a 'Morhek</sup></font></i></u>]] 17:38, 2 January 2011 (EST) | ||
::The Forerunner known as "the [[Librarian]]" was able to control the human population, with people being programmed to seek her out. Perhaps the Precursors used a similar technology to program generations of Forerunners and humans to desire the improvement of their own technology - an ancient rennaisance. The Forerunners themselves suspected that both they and the humans had had their genes tampered with long ago by the Precursors to create an example of [[wikipedia:Convergent evolution|"convergent evolution"]].-- [[User talk:Forerunner|Forerunner]] 19:27, 2 January 2011 (EST) | ::The Forerunner known as "the [[Librarian]]" was able to control the human population, with people being programmed to seek her out. Perhaps the Precursors used a similar technology to program generations of Forerunners and humans to desire the improvement of their own technology - an ancient rennaisance. The Forerunners themselves suspected that both they and the humans had had their genes tampered with long ago by the Precursors to create an example of [[wikipedia:Convergent evolution|"convergent evolution"]].-- [[User talk:Forerunner|Forerunner]] 19:27, 2 January 2011 (EST) | ||
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*Strong {{support}}. "Ancient" does not convey the appropriate time, and "prehistoric" is much more appropriate. -- [[User:Specops306|<b><font color=indigo>Specops306</font></b>]] [[halofanon:user:Specops306|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>Qur'a 'Morhek</sup></font></i></u>]] 02:42, 9 January 2011 (EST) | *Strong {{support}}. "Ancient" does not convey the appropriate time, and "prehistoric" is much more appropriate. -- [[User:Specops306|<b><font color=indigo>Specops306</font></b>]] [[w:c:halofanon:user:Specops306|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>Qur'a 'Morhek</sup></font></i></u>]] 02:42, 9 January 2011 (EST) | ||
**{{Support}}. Same here, of course. --[[User talk:Braidenvl|"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have." -Thomas Jefferson]] 11:12, 9 January 2011 (EST) | **{{Support}}. Same here, of course. --[[User talk:Braidenvl|"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have." -Thomas Jefferson]] 11:12, 9 January 2011 (EST) | ||
**{{Support}}, per Specops306. -- [[User talk:SFH|SFH]] 15:27, 9 January 2011 (EST) | **{{Support}}, per Specops306. -- [[User talk:SFH|SFH]] 15:27, 9 January 2011 (EST) | ||
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I can’t help but noticed we have conflicting information on humanity’s de-evolving namely whether the Forerunners de-evolved us or not, I believe the Halopedia community needs to come to solid position over this - [[User talk:MCDBBlits|MCDBBlits]] 20:50, 30 January 2011 (EST) | I can’t help but noticed we have conflicting information on humanity’s de-evolving namely whether the Forerunners de-evolved us or not, I believe the Halopedia community needs to come to solid position over this - [[User talk:MCDBBlits|MCDBBlits]] 20:50, 30 January 2011 (EST) | ||
:The Forerunners reduced past humanity to a more ancestral form, from which other variants were restored by the genetic manipulation and guidance of the Librarian - Florians, Neanderthals, modern humans, etc. I'm not entirely sure how that works, since Neanderthals appear in the fossil record before humanity supposedly achieved spaceflight, while Florians don't appear at all until after the activation of the Array, but hey, it's also lampshaded in the story, commenting that the human fossil record was completely mixed and jumpled by the process. -- [[User:Specops306|<b><font color=indigo>Specops306</font></b>]] [[halofanon:user:Specops306|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>Qur'a 'Morhek</sup></font></i></u>]] 22:31, 30 January 2011 (EST) | :The Forerunners reduced past humanity to a more ancestral form, from which other variants were restored by the genetic manipulation and guidance of the Librarian - Florians, Neanderthals, modern humans, etc. I'm not entirely sure how that works, since Neanderthals appear in the fossil record before humanity supposedly achieved spaceflight, while Florians don't appear at all until after the activation of the Array, but hey, it's also lampshaded in the story, commenting that the human fossil record was completely mixed and jumpled by the process. -- [[User:Specops306|<b><font color=indigo>Specops306</font></b>]] [[w:c:halofanon:user:Specops306|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>Qur'a 'Morhek</sup></font></i></u>]] 22:31, 30 January 2011 (EST) | ||
::I'm aware of that but the point I was making was that on one page says that human were defeat and '''de-evolved on their own''' and on others it states that the Forerunners de-evolved us, and that we at Halopedia need to improve internal continuity or change all relevant pages to state that the Forerunner government de-evolved humanity but told their people that it happened naturally - [[User talk:MCDBBlits|MCDBBlits]] 17:25, 1 February 2011 (EST) | ::I'm aware of that but the point I was making was that on one page says that human were defeat and '''de-evolved on their own''' and on others it states that the Forerunners de-evolved us, and that we at Halopedia need to improve internal continuity or change all relevant pages to state that the Forerunner government de-evolved humanity but told their people that it happened naturally - [[User talk:MCDBBlits|MCDBBlits]] 17:25, 1 February 2011 (EST) | ||
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:::Actually it is about the Human species at the time, the genetic differences (ancestral sub-species) make up the homo genus since they were all affiliated at the time. I say keep it since the word "Prehistoric" honestly wouldn't work now since Humanity (modern) is getting a grasp on it's past. [[User:Alertfiend|Alertfiend]] - [[Blue Team|Team Chief]] 20:35, 8 January 2016 (EST) | :::Actually it is about the Human species at the time, the genetic differences (ancestral sub-species) make up the homo genus since they were all affiliated at the time. I say keep it since the word "Prehistoric" honestly wouldn't work now since Humanity (modern) is getting a grasp on it's past. [[User:Alertfiend|Alertfiend]] - [[Blue Team|Team Chief]] 20:35, 8 January 2016 (EST) | ||
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