Nimos
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I think the estimate is that homo sapiens are around 200-300 thousands years old. Im not sure what you mean with our evolution being so slow? We as all animals adapt to our environment.So I wonder if you think that humans, said by scientists to have existed in a similar form as today for hundreds at least thousands of years -- why was their "development" so slow during that time?
Which is why you will have Africans normally having shorter, but wider noses, because of hot temperatures, whereas you in the Europe and lets just take the Nordic countries like Denmark, Sweden etc. will have longer narrower noses, so the air can be easily heated. At least that is what I have heard. Also the darker skin helps protect against the sun. So I mean if we assume that humans originated in Africa, then we have change skin color etc. in those 200 thousand years. Now another thing why homo sapiens evolution seems more slow, is because we "breed" with everyone, so white people with black, black with Asians etc. so we don't really live all that isolated in specific environments as we used to.
But 200 thousand years is not a lot in evolutionary terms, looking at Homo erectus they lived for a lot longer than we currently have, before they went extinct.
Im not saying it is the same. Simply that if you asked a person, when exactly did for instance modern Danish evolve it would be impossible to answer, because its not a fixed date, the language evolved over time, with new generations adding words, some getting changed etc. That was my point.P.S. Language development is not the same as biological development, let's say, from -- what is supposed to have evolved into apes, by the way?