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> The idea that our species could have arisen anyway is beyond absurd. The universe does not work in this fashion.

Guess that's where I disagree with you.



Ok, so it's your theory that mammals could continue to evolve in a completely different direction, with different evolutionary pressures for say 45 or 55 million years, but then all of the sudden veer off in a wild direction where they follow pretty much the same exact path that early human ancestors followed...

Such that, at the end of it all, we have something that either or both looks like an anatomically modern human and would (hypothetically) be able to have fertile offspring with a H. sapiens human?

Because, I have to tell you, that's pretty batshit.


My claim isn't that humans arising is deterministic, it's that niches got filled.

With rain forests, something would have filled the primate niche. That something might well have become human-like.

While humans faced genetic bottlenecks, I'm not sure that affected all primates the same.




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