Amergin
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Modern Humans were not around when the dinosaurs ruled 65 million years ago. However we did not simply appear 200,000 years ago. We are the product of a long family line of primates some of whom lived in the trees escaping from ground dwelling dinosaurs.
70-60 MYA- Carpolestes simpsoni was a proto-primate group called Plesiadapiforms that lived in the trees and survived the extinction of the dinosaurs. It had the first opposable thumb.
65-55 MYA – Euprimates was a member of a group called Archaic Primates and lived in trees.
65-50 MYA - Purgatorius janisae survived the late Cretaceous Dinosaurs in the late Cretaceous by living in trees. Two other tree dwelling early primates included Primates and Carpolestes. They survived the supposed Comet and survived into the Palaeocene. Possible ancestor to tarsiers, lemurs, and prosimians.
We can say that we did live along side the dinosaurs only we sought safety in the trees while dinos ate us if we spent too much time on the ground. If one refers to the human family line as a continuum, then we did coexist with the dinosaurs.
Of course our line goes further back. One ancestor of the human and vertebrate line, Pikaia, ancestor to all vertebrates including us, lived in the Cambrian Era, along side of Trilobites, Anomalocaris, Hallucigenia, and other strange looking forms that did not survive.
Does scripture mention us (Pikaia) escaping from Anomalocaris and Hallucingenia 530 million years ago? Do you think we have inherited genetic memory? I do not buy that.
However, our family line goes back to the Archaean Era 3.8 billion years ago when a not yet named ancestor of ours lived. This unicellular pre- pre- pre-human bacterium lived alongside the first photosynthetic unicellular organism. We probably can not remember that either. Crikey!
Amergin
