Hey, Buddies....Whats up?
I hope you people having very good days. And here I am with yet another blog and I am thinking why not make things a little bit exciting today? I mean lets heat up the atmosphere baby. HAHA. Everyone loves to know about ancestors. How my Great Grandpaa's face would look like, or how do his great Grandfather look like? We enjoy exploring things like that. And I obviously don't know what the face of your great grand father look like (I expect you to not expect such things from me either). But, here, in this blog, we are going to track the ancestry line of the genus Homo. I mean that supposedly include every individual of your facebook chatlist. (I hope they are all human. Haha).
So don't get messed off on these talks and lets track our ancestry. Come on Folks.
1. First, and foremost, the person reading this blog is the product of millions of years of (Homo genus) evolution and had passed through many intermediate and developing stages of Homo in itself. I have covered that entire process in another blog (dedicated only for Homo genus evolution process) and I shall refrain myself from elaborating further in the topic.
2. 6 MYs (Million Years) ago your ancestor probably looked somewhat similar with Apes and Bonobos of modern days. And I have to state one thing clearly before going ahead. Your ancestors were not Apes or Bonobos. What I am saying is our ancestor was intermediate between Us and Apes/Bonobos and It might be somewhat similar with apes/bonobos in morphology.
3. Gorillas join us at 7 MYs time gap, Oranngutans at 14MYs, Gibbons at 18 MYs, Old World Monkey 25 MYs and New world monkeys in 40 MYs of gap from this date.
Am I clear here? Remember what I am saying here is, Gorillas got there own separate way from us and enjoyed its own being about 7 MYs ago. That means going beyond about more than 7 MYs from here what you would encounter is an intermediate ancestor of both Gorilla and us.( I hope you don't get messed off in it furthermore.) And same holds true for others as well.
4. Tarsiers join the force with us 58 MYs ago, Lemurs about 63 MYs ago.
And now as we go beyond, we would be greeting the ancestor common with us( that includes everything mentioned above) and Tree shrews about 70 MYs ago.
5. Going beyond that we meet with our ancestor common with Rodents and Rabbits about 75 MYs ago.
6. Laurasiatheres ( That include from Hippos to whale) goes 85 MYs beyond.
7. Xenathrans ( Includes Armadillos and ant eaters) goes about 95 MYs beyond
8. Afrotheres ( Elephants, Elephant shrew, Du gongs) -105 MYS - last placental mammal. Which joins with Marsupials about 140 MYs.
9. Monotremes like ancestor comes in our list about 180 MYs ago.
10. And finally arrives the Reptilian ancestor to all Mammals. i.e Sauropsid about 310 MYs ago.
11. Amphibians about 340 MYs in the early carboniferous
12. Then we go back to Lungfish about 417 MYs. You know nature planned for us back from that day. I mean seriously, Fish with a LUNG. Haha. And yeah our ancestor once.
13. Coelocanth (Lobe finned fish) with their DNA somewhat similar to the rest of the vertebrates with limb joins the force about 425 MYs ago.
And Ray finned fish about 440 MYs ago, that includes all the different teleost fishes.
14. Sharks joins us about 460 MYs ago, typical cartilaginous attackers which didn't gave any interst in joining land and dominated sea for million of years.
15. Lampreys and Hag fishes joins the hand about 530 MYs ago. And Lancelets - 560 MYs, Sea squirts (Urochordates) - 565 Mys
16. Then finally comes Ambulacrarians and dating goes beyond 600 MYs and precision is something we can't be sure of.
17. Protostomes joins with us (which are now divided into multiple phylums: Mollusca, Arthropodas, Asciliminths etc.). And it is supposed that it might looked more like a worm.
Going below Protostomes we reach to Acoelomorph flatworms, Cnidarians, Ctenophoras,and even going deeper in time we meet our ancestor in the form of amoeba and prokaryotes.
Evolution is pretty messy and and as we go deeper in time we don't have reliable fossil records hence molecular genetics is another hope but even with that we can't accurately recommend the transition from one to another being. But its nice to keep the general idea of our evolutionary history.
Happy times ahead.
#PeaceBeWithYou ...
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