How can people not be interested in the era of dinosaurs, and more recently, early humans? (influence, facts)
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I cannot understand people who say these times in history aren't interesting. Can you imagine what it would have been like? I am fascinated, some could say obsessed (lol) with the age of the dinosaurs. I always wonder what it would have been like. Forests of ferns and conifers, flood plains and a warm climate, teeming with huge creatures travelling and hunting. It is amazing to think about, don't you agree?
Also, to think about the world more recently. Imagine early humans in Africa millions of years ago and what it must have been like to survive. How did they live? What did they do day to day? How did they communicate with each other? How did they learn to hunt and forage etc?
Honestly, I find these days boring. I wish I had a time machine to go back in time and experience life in both periods in time. This planet is absolutely amazing! How every single person isn't interested in how life was like way before us confuses me. It is a wonderful subject.
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I'm with you. But my fascination also runs later on the timeline (age of Woolly Mammoths & Sabertooth tigers, etc). I used to live (& work) close to the La Brea Tar Pits in LA.. it's cool place to see & imagine what life was like back then; for both man & animals..
I cannot understand people who say these times in history aren't interesting. Can you imagine what it would have been like? I am fascinated, some could say obsessed (lol) with the age of the dinosaurs. I always wonder what it would have been like. Forests of ferns and conifers, flood plains and a warm climate, teeming with huge creatures travelling and hunting. It is amazing to think about, don't you agree?
Also, to think about the world more recently. Imagine early humans in Africa millions of years ago and what it must have been like to survive. How did they live? What did they do day to day? How did they communicate with each other? How did they learn to hunt and forage etc?
Honestly, I find these days boring. I wish I had a time machine to go back in time and experience life in both periods in time. This planet is absolutely amazing! How every single person isn't interested in how life was like way before us confuses me. It is a wonderful subject.
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I think any time period in the past is fascinating because of how mysterious it is. However, the times we live in are getting complicated enough that most people have little room for investment outside of our present and near future.
I cannot understand people who say these times in history aren't interesting. Can you imagine what it would have been like? I am fascinated, some could say obsessed (lol) with the age of the dinosaurs. I always wonder what it would have been like. Forests of ferns and conifers, flood plains and a warm climate, teeming with huge creatures travelling and hunting. It is amazing to think about, don't you agree?
Also, to think about the world more recently. Imagine early humans in Africa millions of years ago and what it must have been like to survive. How did they live? What did they do day to day? How did they communicate with each other? How did they learn to hunt and forage etc?
Honestly, I find these days boring. I wish I had a time machine to go back in time and experience life in both periods in time. This planet is absolutely amazing! How every single person isn't interested in how life was like way before us confuses me. It is a wonderful subject.
I think Dinosaurs were created just for marketing Jurassic park and merchandises. Just remember how they marketed 2012 movie. Many people even were close to believing it.
And finally Indians are good at documenting things from atom to astronomy , but there is no trace of anything about dinosaurs in their history.
I cannot understand people who say these times in history aren't interesting. Can you imagine what it would have been like? I am fascinated, some could say obsessed (lol) with the age of the dinosaurs. I always wonder what it would have been like. Forests of ferns and conifers, flood plains and a warm climate, teeming with huge creatures travelling and hunting. It is amazing to think about, don't you agree?
Also, to think about the world more recently. Imagine early humans in Africa millions of years ago and what it must have been like to survive. How did they live? What did they do day to day? How did they communicate with each other? How did they learn to hunt and forage etc?
Honestly, I find these days boring. I wish I had a time machine to go back in time and experience life in both periods in time. This planet is absolutely amazing! How every single person isn't interested in how life was like way before us confuses me. It is a wonderful subject.
Where did you get those comments that people aren't interested??
I am very interested in those eras....and study history as time permits. ...you are right, the planet and it's past are amazing!
Take some anthropology courses for in depth study of early humans...
Beat me to it. Realize, OP, that the Dinosaur era went from about 230 million years ago, to about 60 million years ago. Man has been around (H. sapiens) about 200K years. So the dinosaur era was for a damn long time, a damn long time ago. People as we would recognize them have been around a much shorter period of time. Various sci-fi movies to the contrary, there was no overlap, not even close.
Interesting? Yes, of course. But, given that neither dinosaurs nor early man kept historical records, it's not really history.
It's just a different facet of historical interest. Dinosaurs had no real influence on human history and we are still discovering new facts and varieties so it is still in the realm of discovery. There is a lot of uncertainty and controversy regarding early humans and the early migrations. It's all very interesting but there is some continuing debate in a rapidly changing field. We just learned a few years ago that we carry Neanderthal genetic material. That stunned a lot of people. There's plenty of recorded history to keep us busy while the experts sort out the prehistoric events and eras.
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