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)

I have to say I disagree with this statement "After forty thousand years of expansion" on the basis of what source does this come from? If it is being based on Halo Legends: The Babysitter because of the ancient ruins that resemble East Asian architecture then the statement is based on conjecture. It is never established if in fact those ruins were built by the Human Empire or not. Deep Reverence 16:30, 14 January 2011 (EST) Ya I mean how do we know it was never sourced#@lof@n1234 20:57, 30 January 2011 (EST)

The novel says somewhere in the first two chapters that humanity had been space faring for 40,000 years before their war with the Forerunners.-- Forerunner 16:47, 14 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)

De-evolved

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 - 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. -- Specops306 ^{Autocrat Qur'a 'Morhek} 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 - MCDBBlits 17:25, 1 February 2011 (EST)

Really? But the Didact remembers the florins in the war along with the hamanune.-- Forerunner 18:30, 1 February 2011 (EST)

The Forerunners de-evolved all humans including the florins to an early point in their history - MCDBBlits 19:33, 1 February 2011 (EST)