First human

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----------, Larry D. Enger wrote:

> >LARRY

> >There was no first human. Evolution is a slow, gradual process so there

> >is no definitive point at which you could say "after this, we are human

> >and before this we are ape". 

> 

> Of course there was a first human. Either an animal is a

> human or an ape, not gradually both. The first human appeared

> when Eve lost her hair and gained a neocortex and was no longer

> a chimp due to a genetic mutation.

> 

> Dick Jones

>


Eve lost all her hair?  None of us must be human, then, since we all still
have hair - and all over our bodies even, don't you know!

(And by the way, which specific mutation made us human vs. chimp - not that
we are, of course, by your definition.)

April

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