History can't confirm nor deny Homo sapiens as an alien species?
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You seriously need to take your medication.
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The genus is Homo, in the family Hominidae.  An example of another genus in the Hominidae is Australopithecus.\n\nAs far as how many species have been placed in the genus Homo, it depends on how much of a splitter or lumper you are.\n\nThere are some paleoanthropologists who would place every single fossil ever found in its own species.  Some of them would probably split each fossil into twenty or thirty species if they could figure out how to get a paper out of it.\n\nOthers will lump everything as a single species unless there's a compelling reason to define a new species.  Invertebrate palaeontologists usually need dozens if not hundreds of individual specimens before they can make a case for proposing a new species, let alone a new genus.  Those who study human palaeontology have a tendency to completely rework the entire family tree with each and every minimal find.\n\nThis is partially a consequence of working in a high profile field with lots of public interest and media opportunities with more academic scholars than there are actual fossils, but it does tend to create a bad image of wishy washery and flim flammery for the profession, and fosters an inaccurate view of how most palaeontology is actually done.\n\nPretty much everyone agrees there are at least three species of Homo:  \n\nHomo habilis lived in East Africa, and is associated with the first undisputed stone tools.\n\nHomo erectus moved out of Africa, and into Asia, getting as far as Java (aka Java man) and China (aka Peking man)\n\nHomo sapiens probably moved out of Africa again, actually reaching Europe.\n\nHomo sapiens neandertalensis was a specialized European subspecies with various adaptations for living in harsh ice age conditions.\n\nHomo sapiens sapiens is another subspecies that developed in southern Africa about 100,000 years ago and moved out of Africa again to take over all the areas previously inhabited by Homo erectus, killed off or interbred with previous Homo sapiens groups (including Homo sapiens neandertalensis) and even reached Australia, North America, South America, and even New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands.\n\nThere may have been another species Homo floriensis, a pygmy species that lived on perhaps a handful of southeast Asian islands.  This is the guy touted as the "Hobbit man" last year.  Unfortunately the fossils were smashed in transit (the scientist who proposed the "Hobbit" blames his fellow researcher, while the other researcher who thinks the fossils are just a standard midget human blames the first researcher) and the Indonesian government has refused further research permits.\n\nSo three definite species in the Genus Homo, several subspecies and at least one possible other species.
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This is one of the most common misconceptions regarding the theory of evolution.  The theory of human evolution does not claim that humans came from apes.  Instead, it says that many millions of years ago, there was a species that was neither a human nor an ape.  This species split into at least two groups.  Over millions of years, one of those groups gradually changed to become what we now know as apes, and one of them gradually changed to become what we now know as humans. \n\nWhether you choose to believe the theory of evolution or some other explanation for how humans came to be is an entirely different matter.  That's something you have to decide for yourself--a bunch of strangers on the Internet can't tell you that.
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I would have to disagree with David to some extent. To evolve into a different species we would have changed enough so that different subpopulations of humans could no longer interbreed. Humans display a range of social and technological aptitudes and capacities throughout earth, the majority of which haven't even heard a dialtone let alone participated in any form of advanced travel or communications processes. However, none of these people are incabable of doing so if provided with the appropriate education needed. This suggest that there hasn't been any change in our molecular (genetic) makeup that provides us with these advanced technologies -- which is where the changes are needed to happen for biological evolution to occur. Even if you wanted to argue that social evolution has distinguished industrialized man from our primitive brethern enough to warrant a new species distinction, I would argue that we still haven't met one of the key requirements for doing so, there are no subgroups of humans on earth that are incapable of interbreeding with one another. Until that happens, no we haven't evolved from Homo sapiens sapiens to Homo sapiens futura. \n\nHowever, we will evolve into someting different! This is a certainty -- as long as our species doesn't become extint before that can happen! But don't expect that Homo sapiens will evolve into just one different species. Depending on what our environment(s) dictates, humans could evolve into numerous other species. Through the process of evolution, it is inevitable, but at the same time it is not predictable.
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Absolutely none.  "Missing Link" or "Transitional species or fossils" have not yet been found.  Homo Sapiens Sapiens (modern men) have no connection to other species, contrary to what evolutionists would like us believe.  Unfortunately, most common textbooks on biology claims that there are hundreds of transitional fossils that have been found.  These so called evidences are uncomplete and therefore, unreliable.  SOme of the fossils that have been reconstructed are actually mixed bones of various species.  The Peking Man, was found out to be a hoax, being constructed from the bones of a man with arthritis and that of a pig.
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In History Definetly Not\n\nCurrent No
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Homo erectus is now thought not to have been a direct ancestor of humans, but to have lived at the same time and have had the same ancestor. Genetic studies on both mitochondial DNA and Y chromosomes indicates that a common ancestor lived around 150,000 years ago.  However, that doesnt mean that modern humans werent around before that, just that our direct ancestors lived 150,000 years ago.
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No.\n\nSo far we've seen no verifiable evidence of other sentient species. That said, I believe with some certainty that somewhere in our galaxy at some past, present, or future time, a sentient species did/does/will exist.\n\nWhy haven't we heard from them?\n\nPerhaps they are not technologically advanced enough to be heard. They may be mastering stone knives right now, or experiencing their own Rennaisance.\n\nPerhaps they are here right now. Any species sufficiently advanced to travel interstellar distances would be able to hide or masquerade with ease. That Boeing 737 that flew by may be a surveillance craft.\n\nPerhaps they are so far away they will never notice us and vice versa.\n\nPerhaps they existed a million years ago and died out.\n\nPerhaps they will exist a million years from now.\n\nIt is really impossible to know for sure.\n\nThe Drake Equation suggests that there is sentient life out there. The Fermi Paradox casts doubt. Play around with the calculation form at the second link and see what you think.
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There is no evidence that alien species from other worlds or other galaxies have ever visited Earth. The examples given have all been debunked by numerous scientists. We'd like to believe there is life out there, but we haven't heard from anyone yet. Because the distances are vast -- measured in hundreds of thousands of light years -- it is more likely that we would have radio or television transmission, which travels at the speed of light, than a visit in person. Maybe they're listening to our TV broadcasts and don't think we're intelligent enough to contact.
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The former. Or, possibly, slaves from other nations. Why? Because there's no certainty aliens from space exist, therefor the answer must be the latter if limited to the choices given.
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Yes we branched off from their line over 2 million years ago so there should be considerable variations  (we walk erect).  At some point in history human hair may have been a way to attract members of the opposite sex (you forgot that males have long hair too).\n\nEvolution is not that quick to say that we are from apes, apes and us are from the same tree jsut as we are from the same evolutionary tree as all other mammals.  we just broke off from others at different times in the history of the earth.
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No, Adam and Eve were the first Homo Sapiens.\n\nYou're trying too hard to fit science and the bible together.  God didn't create a clean rock called Earth.  He created the Earth with a history.  That's how you come to terms with 1,000,000 year old fossils.  He made them that old to begin with.  Connecting evolution to the Bible is easier than you think.
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that is funny.  someone saying "Why would you believe a race of aliens without question?? Just because they have traveled through space doesn't make them trustworthy."  why would you believe a book just because it was written along time ago?
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Demographers have come up with estimates ranging between 69 billion and 110 billion humans. This gives us a spread of 41 billion, a pretty formidable margin of error. \n\nA complication, among scientists at least, is that we do not know precisely when our primate ancestors became human. Many researchers have arbitrarily settled on one million years ago, even though our own subset of the genus Homo, H. sapiens sapiens, did not emerge until around 40,000 years ago.\n\nIf the paleolithic crowd (1 million years to 25,000 years ago) strikes you as too crude for admission to the communion of saints, subtract 36 billion or so from the figures above.
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The problem with your theory is that the aliens, by all reports, are fairly confused about our sexual organs. \n\nIf they have managed to create a human simalcrum based on their knowledge of the anus, you're right, that would be scary indeed.
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No. The whole thing is a myth. Not even an original one. they just copied off of earlier civilizations myths.
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no, no, no, Humans were created to be a slave race by aliens...