Neanderthal Rope!
Neanderthals made rope by 48,000 BCE indicating the raw cognitive abilities likely evolved on our common ancestor 440,000 years ago.
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Earliest Known Toothpicks
Homo habilis, one of the earliest known human ancestors, emerged around 2.3 million years ago with a brain size significantly larger than modern chimpanzees. By around 1.8 million years ago, they became the first species known to use toothpicks for dental hygiene, alongside their advanced tool use for specific tasks like skinning animals and cutting
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Big Bang Expansion
13.8 billion years ago, space itself began expanding and cooling, setting the stage for particles, atoms, stars, galaxies, planets, life, and us.
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Singularity
When we trace the universe backward, our equations point to an unimaginably hot, dense beginning — not a confirmed object, but the mysterious edge where current physics breaks down.
LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor
About 3.75 billion years lived LUCA. Not first life, but the common ancestor of all life today. LUCA used DNA, had ribosomes, used ATP, and had translation machinery. It lived in high-temperature environments.
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