Could we have evolved without the separation of Pangea?

Question

Im wondering if we would have had differant races and what not. any opinion is welcomed :D

Answer 1

Maybe.

Answer 2

I think maybe because there are possibility that if there appear a higher intelligent category on the Pangea, but a tougher environment will cause higher evolution, which means separated continents will make more diverse evolution as it provides more variety of environments, as I am going to tell you I my definition of what causes evolution.

We can find the evidence by analyzing, in anthropological definition of the our evolution, the modern human were evolved in African before walking out for Eurasia, which demonstrated a category can evolve in a single continent. Then, after  the human

ancestor walked our of Africa, they went through further evolution as their skin turned lighter, change of life habits and become more intelligent as the tougher environment of Eurasia.

So, in a microscopical view, why the early human ancestor in Africa went through the evolution even they are on the same continent? By the definition of anthropology, a theory of it suggests that when a four feet

humanoid monkey habit along the seaside as they will choose to hunt in the sea, which caused them to stand up with just two feet as that can help they head to be in a higher position in order to breath when walking in deeper water.

Then, by one of the reasons as this one, I think evolution was aroused by adaptation of different environment. Therefore, analygically, as human go further evolution for adapting the environment in Eurasia and a comparatively mild evolution in Africa because Africa had a more fertile environment than Eurasia in the ancient time, a continent as pengea can caused evolution since it has different environments.

Additionally, so why human continued their evolution even after they adapted the continent by their original life unlike other

category does? Scientists of anthropology deducted this may caused by we have our hands free since we standed up, we can use our hands to help us further as our hand make the human life more complex. And so for adapting this complex life, human has been continuing their evolution for adapting a ever increasing complex world until today and therefore in the future. And, let's go back to the initial of my discussion- may there a higher category which is humanoid monkey appeared? My answer is that a higher intelligence category, like humanoid monkey can be evolved by the process like the evolution possess I defined above, which is different from the evo-process of other categories. However, there are still a possibility that a world without human race may appear.

Answer 3

We weren't even around.

Answer 4

There are different races on Eurasia so it doesn't require that the different races have oceans or great desserts separating them.

Answer 5

It's almost impossible to say. Surely If Pangea had not separated the animal kingdom would be quite different.  The asteroid still would have wiped out the dinosaurs (latest theory anyway), but other than that, tiny little changes can have such huge effects that nobody can say for sure.

My semi-educated guess is that we would not have evolved as we are today if at all.  The change in environment would just be too vast.

Answer 6

Pangea was 300 million years ago, pre-dinosaurs...

Everything would have been different...

Primates, which emerged 100 million years ago, may not have had that opportunity...

Maybe Dolphins today would represent the highest intelligence on this planet...

Perhaps if the land masses hadn't separated, the earth's rotation could have been affected, and wobbled out of orbit?

Answer 7

Interesting question - and one that shows some creativity.  

Evolution would certainly have happened, but there is no way of knowing how it would have been affected.  with regard to primates, we know the continental shift that broke up the continents into what we know today happened sometime before New World primates developed the ability to use their tail for grasping (no Old World primates can do this), which also seems to have been long before the development of Apes and our most distant human ancestors - so it is quite likley that humans as we exist today may never have come about - then again, we might have evolved along a similar trajectory - but more quickly?  There really is no way of knowing excpet that things would not be exactly what we see today.

Answer 8

sure

Answer 9

Pangea separated over 50 million years ago so our ancestor at that time was certainly not "we" but yes that animal evolved and no it wasn't responsible for different races.  The different races evolved in resonse to them living in different environments.  ****** evolved dark skin (or retained it) and long thin bodies to cope with the African sun and heat.  Eskimoes evolved thick short bodies to help cope with the cold.  There are many more examples.