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Re: human/dinosaur co-existance

>From: Thomas_R_HOLTZ@umail.umd.edu (th81)
 > and the
 > earliest members of our species (Homo sapiens) is around 900,000
 > years ago.

To pick nits: even with the widest possible definition of
Homo sapiens, the earliest known fossils of it only go back
about half that time.

Personally, I prefer to split this set up into three species,
in which case Homo sapiens only dates back to about 150,000 to
200,000 years ago.

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