Wednesday, 21 February 2018

evolution - Can we make a rough estimate of the number of generations since the origin of life?


According to what we've learnt :



  • we can approximate the number of generations since the first human pretty much like us (depending what / who we talk about).

  • we have an idea of the series of life forms we come from.


So is it possible to give it a very rough number ? Or it's not, because of some issues - but which ones ? (I only think about the many, short generations of the first forms, which moreover we don't really know about, as a limit to counting)


What if we stop counting at "unicellular" (or else) ?




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