Thank you! Into geology, thus ‘geologic time,’ the recent splits among the apes seems like only yesterday I love the “so we are all cousins” analogy..

Was attempting to describe to a religious door-knocker how all life on earth is related … until realizing there’s a depth of learning you must first possess in order to understand such things.. Being as they shun education as soon as possible ..my effort felt wasted, and in a strange way, likely as ‘far fetched’ to him as the fairy tales he was pushing… It was almost comical how, after patiently listening to each other’s descriptions of the origins of life - we both had the same expression

So when was the Banana split?
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Fascinating! We are all just matter.

Next step is go to recent history: since 3 million years or so, and look at other closer relative hominids. Start to wonder why they all died out and most likely our adaptation to change proved better. Still with Neanderthal and Denesovan people who Sapian Sapian interbreed with were quite possibly killed off by our direct contact of warring; stealing the best lands; etc.