# Could persent day humanity survive 2 million years ago?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 18, 2006, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-persent-day-humanity-survive-2-million-years-ago/361168 "2006-06-18T12:43:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-persent-day-humanity-survive-2-million-years-ago/361168/81 "2006-07-01T18:18:35Z")

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What’s up with all the “proto-insect” and “proto-fish” remarks. Insects and fish have been around a lot more than 2 million years ago. It’s a long time ago, but not that long ago. Heck, 2 million years ago there were primates in Africa making stone tools (Homo habilis).

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