Talk:Ancestors

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?--File:PENGUIN4.gifFluffyEmoPenguin^{(ice quack!)} 17:11, 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 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. -- Specops306 ^{Autocrat Qur'a 'Morhek} 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 "convergent evolution".-- Forerunner 19:27, 2 January 2011 (EST)

Rename

• Strong Support. "Ancient" does not convey the appropriate time, and "prehistoric" is much more appropriate. -- Specops306 ^{Autocrat Qur'a 'Morhek} 02:42, 9 January 2011 (EST)
  • Support. Same here, of course. --"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. -- SFH 15:27, 9 January 2011 (EST)