Chapter 588

The judgment of the old apes saved the lives of the people in the early stage. Taking refuge on the Rocky Mountains in time can avoid being swept away by the flood or submerged by the debris flow, but at the same time, it cut off the way for the group to escape.

Evacuation became a myth.

At that time, the ancient apes had no knowledge of shipbuilding.

Tie it to the wood, drift with the tide, see where it can drift, and leave everything to luck?

The idea looks beautiful, but there are many problems.

First, there was no rope at that time, only vines. It's OK to drag things with rattan, but it's difficult to fix people firmly, and people who are tied are easy to slip.

Second, the number of vines is not enough to save a few people.

Third, this is a bare rock mountain with few trees.

Fourth, in the turbulent flood, even if people drift with tree trunks, they are easy to be buried in the water and drown.

To sum up, this is not an idea with high survival rate, and its feasibility is very low.

Even if there are indeed twos and threes of people who can survive, the tribe no longer exists.

The lone apes entered the wild, and there was no possibility of survival.

Even with Chen Feng's intelligence and the insight of modern people, he can't think of how the primitive humans blocked on the top of the mountain escaped from life.

Therefore, although they know that they can only wait to die in the mountains, the surviving apes have no choice but to live one day at a time.

Chen Feng's virtual history is slowly accelerating.

As time went by, the living habits and posture of ancient apes began to change gradually in extreme environments due to the increasing lack of food.

First of all, the ancient apes more strongly control their diet and adjust their bodies to adapt to the scarcity of food as much as possible.

Strange things happened. Although the body of the ancient apes looked weaker and thinner, the thin body and extreme malnutrition did not quickly defeat those who survived the first month.

Their movements are still agile, and their lighter weight and smaller size make them consume much less energy in action.

The changes in adult apes are obvious, but the changes in juvenile and juvenile apes are more significant.

In order to reduce the energy consumption during short-distance movement, these children gradually try to walk upright on their feet and rely on a more developed cerebellum to maintain balance.

When upright walking animals of the same size and weight move at the same slow speed and the same distance as quadrupeds, as long as the balance of upright animals is well controlled, upright animals consume less total ATP and have a higher field of vision, which makes these straight walking children's efficiency in looking for food or wood on Rocky Mountains suddenly improve a lot.

Not only that, the children who should have been protected have learned water without teachers, and the water is excellent. The probability of going out to find food and returning is much higher.

These children even learned to dive and fish in floods.

In this process, in order to swim faster and more labor-saving in the water, the hair on the body surface of the ape child began to recede at a very fast speed.

Although the ancient ape children did not quickly and completely become modern people, the body surface villi became much shorter, and the hair gradually became no longer absorbent. The surface layer of the hair was quickly and completely covered by the secreted cuticle, forming a tiny hydrophobic scale structure, which is more and more similar to the hair and hair of modern people.

Looking at the changes in front of him, Chen Feng was stunned.

It turns out that in ancient times, the change of human form can really be so fast.

There is no need for generations. It is the same person who changes rapidly because of the needs of the external environment.

Chen Feng also knew that the expression of human genes had such great potential.

Scientists have made many different guesses about human evolution.

Even in the later generation with highly developed scientific and technological process, human beings can synthesize some new species with genes, and even use colonization technology to make themselves become new species. However, there are still many debates and guesses about how human beings gradually became the final shape millions of years ago.

Most people agree that human form is the result of slow evolution in continuous natural selection.

But in fact, when human beings have wisdom and become Homo sapiens, nature's choice of Homo sapiens suddenly decreases a lot.

But the process of losing hair on the human body surface is not over, but still advancing.

It can't be the aesthetic change that leads to the tendency of natural selection in population reproduction.

Who knows what the ancient human aesthetic is? Maybe the more hair, the more popular it is.

Many paleontologists are puzzled by the changes of hair in the process of human evolution, and put forward various guesses.

Now Chen Feng knows why.

In the evolutionary history of human population, there is such a history that we need to swim to save the survival of the race.

Perhaps when this generation survives again, the hair will return to its original state due to the needs of hunting and warmth preservation, but less hair can cope with more complex environments, but it has been engraved in human memory and will be passed on forever until one day, when human wisdom reaches a certain degree and productivity can meet the needs of clothing and warmth preservation, The tendency of hair reduction was strongly expressed again and finally became the mainstream.

The rapid evolution of children gave the population a little breathing space, and the food source was slightly relieved.

However, if the rain continues, there is still no possibility of population expansion and reproduction, and the population will continue to decline due to the deterioration of the external environment, either natural death or death.

In short, the population will continue to decline, but the rate of decline is much slower than that in the first month.

The real change occurred five months after the rainstorm continued to fall.

Five months of lightning and thunder made the oxygen and hydrogen on the earth react quickly to generate more and more water. The pouring rainstorm made the water line of the ocean continue to rise, and finally formed the appearance of the earth.

The persistence of this ancient ape tribe has finally reached its limit.

Ancient apes from old to minor diseases, injuries.

No one can go out looking for food anymore.

The tribe really came to a dead end.

On that day, a huge biological submarine approached the rock mountain.

In a sense, this is not a submarine because there is no air in it.

The upper body is similar to the ancient ape, but the lower body is a fish tail. The fishstar man drilled out of the submarine and poked his head out of the water.

This is a female fish star man.

She is tall and eight meters long.

She managed to squeeze out a smile and waved as friendly as apes greet each other.

Then, a ladder stretched out from the top of the submarine to the hole of the cave.

The upper part of the huge submarine began to grow like plants, which had never been imagined by ancient apes.

The submarine became a small floating island.

The remaining 87 apes supported each other and stepped onto the surface of the submarine in a confused and nervous mood.

Here, ancient apes first came into contact with cooked food - grilled fish.

Ancient apes were also exposed to drugs for the first time.

Chen Feng suddenly knew the source of the fantasy about Noah's Ark in Western mythology and the origin of the legend of Nu Wa mending the sky and saving the world in the flood in Chinese mythology.

Stacked memories have been hidden in people's hearts through fish food, and finally become myths and legends.

The apes settled on the floating island, and more than seven months later.

In the third month, the heavy rain finally stopped, but it was still covered with dark clouds and drizzle from time to time. There were still floods everywhere outside.

Until more than seven months later, the warm sunshine finally spread all over the earth again, and the ground began to dry again.

At this time, the ancient apes arrived on the African continent in the fishstar submarine, walked down the floating island, waved goodbye to each other and began a new reproduction.

The picture in front of Chen Feng suddenly stopped.

What he saw was a real history.

Chen Feng fell into silence.

This is just one of many things that Pisces has done for people on earth.

Perhaps this period of history is more important, so the fishstar people hid it in the depths of stacked memory, and after additional encryption, it was finally presented to Chen Feng.

But why does it have to be this paragraph?

Not anything else?

Chen Feng soon knew why the fishstar people wanted to encrypt it.

It turns out that in this memory, there is another huge secret.

During the more than 200 days of living on the surface of the submarine, the ancient apes received medical assistance from the fishstar man, and their DNA information was also deeply sequenced.

In the DNA information of ancient apes, there are secrets that Chen Feng never thought of.

It turns out that human evolution actually stagnated as early as seven or eight million years ago.

The subsequent so-called evolution is only the pseudo evolution of directional feature expression and the small variation caused by the exchange of blood between different ethnic groups scattered around.

The nature of human genes has never changed.