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How long ago did humans become the dominant species on the planet?
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∙ 6y ago
That's really difficult to pin down. It's not even clear where we draw the line between our ancestors and hominids who were recognisably like us. Tool makers appeared about 2.5 million years ago. The first skulls of creatures indistinguishable from us date from less than 200 000 years ago. Then again, what do we mean by dominant? Is it being more 'intelligent' than other animals? I would tend to think that we only began to dominate when we began to impose our ways on the environment, perhaps when we invented agriculture about 10 000 years ago. Even then we were only a small part of the world and most of it went on unaffected by our doings. The enormous burden we now put on the planet really only started with the industrial revolution some 250 years ago.
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