• @Anyolduser
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    121 year ago

    The line doesn’t go back to early humans. The line goes back to the the very “trunk” of the tree of life, a microbe known as LUCA - the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

    Ancestry doesn’t just run through the history of man, it runs through the history of all life on Earth.

    • @[email protected]
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      01 year ago

      Sure, but at some point there was an ancestor who wasn’t human enough to think of it as “a line”.

      • @Anyolduser
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        11 year ago

        … but you would still be descended from them. Directly. One could even say in a linear fashion.