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Why?
Homo sapians didn't exist a half million years ago.
Yeah but what about time traveling homo sapiens?
Those still don't exist now
As far as we know. Shouldn't be concerning :)
Yes, it should be, because that would double the age of the species.
Can you explain why that would be concerning though? I would celebrate that richness of history.
Mostly because we’ve been studying H. Sapiens for a long time so being so wrong would suggest a big gap in a dating methodology and the way we’ve tracked human migration of their history.
Why should it be concerning as opposed to, say, fascinating?