The judgment of the ancient apes saved the lives of the tribe in the early stage. Taking shelter on the rocks in time could avoid being swept away by floods or being submerged by mudslides, but at the same time it also blocked the tribe's escape route.
Evacuation became a fantasy.
The ancient apes at that time had no knowledge reserve of shipbuilding at all.
Tie yourself to a log and drift with the tide to see where it goes, leaving everything purely to luck?
This idea seems beautiful, but in fact there are many problems.
First, there were no ropes at that time, only rattan. Rattan was good for dragging things, but it was difficult to secure firmly when used to tie people, and the tied people could easily slip off.
Second, the number of canes was not enough to save a few people.
Third, this is a bare rocky mountain with not many trees.
Fourth, in raging floods, even if a person drifts holding on to a tree trunk, it is easy to be buried in the water and drown.
To sum up, this is not an idea with a high survival rate and its feasibility is extremely low.
Even if a few people do manage to survive, the tribe no longer exists.
If a lone ancient ape enters the wild, there is no possibility of survival.
Even with Chen Feng's intelligence and modern knowledge, he couldn't figure out how the primitive humans locked up on the top of the mountain could escape.
Therefore, even though they knew that they could only wait for death if they stayed on the mountain, the surviving apes had no choice but to live one day at a time.
The virtual history in front of Chen Feng slowly accelerated.
As time passed, due to increasingly scarce food, the living habits and body posture of the ancient apes began to gradually change in the extreme environment.
First of all, the ancient apes controlled their diet and adjusted their bodies more vigorously to adapt to the current situation of food scarcity as much as possible.
A strange thing happened. Although the ancient ape seemed to be getting weaker and thinner, the thin body and extreme malnutrition did not quickly defeat these people who survived the first month.
Their movements are still agile, and their lighter weight and smaller size allow them to consume much less energy when moving.
The changes in adult apes are obvious, but the changes in juvenile and juvenile apes are even more significant.
In order to reduce the energy consumed when moving short distances, these children gradually try to walk upright on only two feet when going out, relying on the more developed cerebellum to maintain balance.
When upright animals and quadruped animals of the same size and weight move the same distance at the same slow speed, as long as the balance of the upright animal is controlled well enough, the total amount of ATP consumed by the upright animal is less, and the field of vision is higher, allowing
The efficiency of these straight-moving children in searching for food or wood on rocky mountains has suddenly improved a lot.
Not only that, the children who were supposed to be protected gradually learned the water properties without any guidance, and the water properties were excellent. The probability of going out to find food and then returning was much higher.
The children even learned to dive and fish in the flood waters.
During this process, in order to swim faster and with less effort in the water, the hair on the body surface of the ancient ape child began to recede at an extremely fast speed.
Although the children of ancient apes did not completely become like modern humans quickly, the villi on the body surface became much shorter, and the hair gradually became no longer absorbent. The surface layer of the hair was quickly completely covered by the secreted cuticle, forming tiny hydrophobic scales.
The structure is more and more similar to the hair and fine hair of modern people.
Seeing the changes before his eyes, Chen Feng was shocked.
It turns out that in ancient times, the shape of the human body could really change so quickly.
There is no need to separate generations, it is the same person who changes rapidly due to the needs of the external environment.
Only then did Chen Feng realize that the expression method of human genes actually has such powerful potential.
Scientists have had many different guesses about the evolution of human beings.
Even in later generations when science and technology are highly developed, humans can already use genes to synthesize some new species, and can even use breeding technology to transform themselves into new species. But how did humans gradually become their final appearance millions of years ago?
There are still many controversies and speculations about the process.
Most people agree that the human form is the result of slow evolution through constant natural selection.
But in fact, when humans became intelligent and became Homo sapiens, nature's right to choose for Homo sapiens suddenly decreased a lot.
However, the process of hair loss on the human body has not ended, but is still advancing.
It can't be that aesthetic changes lead to natural selection tendencies in population reproduction.
Who knows what the aesthetics of ancient humans were like. Maybe the more hair you have, the more popular you are.
The changes in hair that occurred during human evolution have puzzled many paleontological scientists and put forward various speculations.
Now Chen Feng knows the reason.
In the evolutionary history of human species, there was a period in which swimming was needed to save the survival of the race.
Perhaps after this generation continues to live, the hair will return to its original shape due to the needs of hunting and warmth. However, having less hair to cope with more complex environments has been engraved in human memory and will be passed down forever.
, until one day, when human intelligence reaches a certain level and productivity can solve the need for wearing warm clothes, the tendency of hair reduction is strongly expressed again, and eventually becomes mainstream.
The rapid evolution of the children gave the population a slight respite, and the food source was slightly relieved.
But if the rain continues, there is still no possibility of the population expanding and reproducing, and the population will continue to decline due to the deterioration of the external environment, perhaps due to natural death or death from disease.
In short, the population will continue to decline, but the rate of decline will be much slower than in the first month.
The real change came five months after heavy rains continued to fall.
Five months of lightning and thunder caused the oxygen and hydrogen on the earth to react rapidly, producing more and more water. The downpours caused the water level of the ocean to continue to rise, and eventually formed the appearance of the earth.
The persistence of this ancient ape tribe finally reached its limit.
The ancient apes suffered from minor illnesses and injuries from old age.
No one can go out to forage anymore.
The tribe has truly reached a desperate situation.
It was on this day that a huge biological submarine approached Yanshan.
In a sense, this cannot be considered a submarine because there is no air inside it.
The upper body resembles that of an ancient ape, but the lower body has a fish tail. The fish star emerged from the submarine and stuck its head out of the water.
This is a female fish star.
She is very tall, eight meters long.
She forced out a smile and waved in a friendly way like ancient apes greeting each other.
Then, a ladder stretched out from the top of the submarine and extended to the entrance of the cave.
The upper part of the huge submarine began to grow like a plant, building-like structures that the apes had never imagined.
The submarine turned into a small floating island.
The remaining eighty-seven ancient apes supported each other and walked onto the surface of the submarine in a confused and nervous mood.
Here, the ancient apes came into contact with cooked food-grilled fish for the first time.
It was also the first time for ancient apes to come into contact with drugs.
Chen Feng suddenly knew the origin of the fantasy about Noah's Ark in Western mythology, and the origin of the legend of Nuwa in Chinese mythology who mended the sky and saved the world in the flood.
Stacked memories have always been hidden in people's hearts through fish food, and eventually turned into myths and legends.
The ancient apes settled down on the floating island, and more than seven months passed.
In the third month, the heavy rain finally stopped, but there were still dark clouds and occasional drizzle, and floods were still raging everywhere outside.
It was not until more than seven months later that warm sunshine finally filled the earth again, and the ground began to dry again.
At this time, the ancient apes arrived on the African continent on the Yuxing submarine, walked off the floating island, waved goodbye to each other, and started a new reproduction.
The scene in front of Chen Feng suddenly stopped.
What he saw was a real piece of history.
Chen Feng fell into silence.
This is just one of the many things the Fish Planets have done for people on Earth.
Perhaps this period of history is more important, so the Fish Star people hid it deep in the stacked memory, and after additional encryption, it was finally presented to Chen Feng.
But why does it have to be this paragraph?
And not something else?
Chen Feng soon understood why the Fish Star people encrypted it.
It turns out that there is another huge secret hidden in this memory.
During the more than two hundred days that the ancient apes lived on the surface of the submarine, they received medical assistance from the fish stars, and their DNA information was also deeply sequenced.
The DNA information of ancient apes contains secrets that even Chen Feng had not thought of.
It turns out that human evolution actually stalled as early as seven to eight million years ago.
The subsequent so-called evolution is nothing more than pseudo-evolution in the expression of directional characteristics, as well as minor mutations that occur when different ethnic groups in scattered places exchange blood with each other.
