# Bringing a human baby here from 50,000 years ago **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 5, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bringing-a-human-baby-here-from-50-000-years-ago/986650 "2023-07-05T15:15:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bringing-a-human-baby-here-from-50-000-years-ago/986650/5 "2023-07-05T16:00:31Z")
We had one like it back in August. > [@How would a very early Homo sapiens do today?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-a-very-early-homo-sapiens-do-today/970129): > > Suppose I fire up my time machine, which isn’t in anything as cool as a DeLorean. (It’s a Kia Forte.) I go back to the earlier years of homo sapiens - let’s say about 150,000 years ago, to when we were definitely, well, homo sapiens. I find a baby who has been separated from its parents, perhaps because they were eaten by a large animal, and bring it back and raise the baby. Will this baby seem entirely indistinguishable from modern humans? What differences might there be? Of course it mig… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bringing-a-human-baby-here-from-50-000-years-ago/986650)._