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Originally Posted by espiex
Physical evolution is continual but far from constant, there just aren't many fossils for all the hundreds of billions of creatures that have lived. It's really unlikely anyone gets to be a fossil.
Mental evolution has also been continual since we started using thought as an evolutionary strategy at all. Continual and accelerating. Early steps did take a long time, but our mental and societal evolution has accelerated as knowledge has built on knowledge. There was no one magic event x number of years ago, we sort of just 'emerged' over time.
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to become a fossil, you have to be killed, or die, in a substance that will preserve your essence/dna... its unlikely that any of us will be fossils, but there are 5 + billion people waiting to die in a setting that will preserve their essence..look at all of the insect/dinosaur fossils...
PLENTY of them...