Chapter 586: Noah's Ark and Nuwa

The judgment of the elderly ape saved the lives of the tribe in the early stage, and they could avoid being swept away by the flood or being drowned by the mudslide by taking refuge in the rocky mountains in time, but at the same time, it cut off the escape route of the tribe.

The evacuation became a fantasy.

At that time, Australopithecus did not have the knowledge of shipbuilding at all.

Tie it to a log and drift with the tide to see where it goes, leaving everything to pure luck?

This may seem like a beautiful idea, but there are a lot of problems.

First, there were no ropes, only rattan. It is okay to use rattan to drag things, but it is difficult to fix it firmly when used to tie people, and it is easy for people to slip off.

Second, the number of rattan is not enough, and it can't save a few people.

Thirdly, it is a bare rocky mountain, and there are not many trees.

Fourth, in a raging flood, even if a person is drifting with a tree trunk in his arms, it is easy for him to be buried in the water and drown.

In summary, this is not an idea with a high survival rate, and the feasibility is extremely low.

Even if there were a few people who survived, the tribe no longer existed.

The lone Australopithecus went into the wild, and there was no chance of survival.

Even with Chen Feng's ingenuity and the insight of modern people, he couldn't think of how the primitive humans who were locked on the top of the mountain could escape.

Therefore, despite knowing that staying on the mountain can only wait for death, the surviving Australopithecus have no choice but to live one day at a time.

The virtual history in front of Chen Feng's eyes slowly accelerated.

As time passed, as food became more and more scarce, the living habits and posture of the ancient apes began to gradually change in the extreme environment.

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

Strange things happened, although the size of the australopithecus looked weaker and thinner, the thin size and extreme malnutrition did not quickly crush these people who survived the first month.

They are still agile, and their lower weight and smaller size allow them to use much less energy when moving.

The changes were noticeable in adult Australopithecus, but more pronounced in juvenile and juvenile Australopithecus.

In order to reduce the amount of energy used when moving short distances, these children gradually try to walk upright on only two feet when they go out, relying on the more developed cerebellum to maintain balance.

When an upright walking animal of the same size and weight moves the same distance at the same slow speed as a quadruped walking animal, as long as the balance of the erectus is well controlled, the total amount of ATP consumed by the erect animal is less, and the field of view is higher, so that the straight-walking children can find food or wood on the rocky mountain dramatically more efficiently.

Not only that, the children who should have been protected have learned the water nature one after another without a teacher, and the water nature is excellent, and the probability of going out to find food and then returning is much higher.

The children even learned to dive and fish in the floods.

In the process, in order to swim faster and less effortfully in the water, the hair on the body of the Australopithecus child began to recede at a rapid rate.

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

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

It turns out that in ancient times, the human form could really change so quickly.

There is no need to intermittent generations, it is the same person, and it changes rapidly because of the needs of the external environment.

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

Scientists have speculated about the evolution of human beings in many different ways.

Even in the later generations, when the technology was highly developed, humans could already use genes to synthesize some new species, and even use breeding technology to turn themselves into new species, but there are still many debates and speculations about how humans gradually became the final form millions of years ago.

The vast majority of people agree that the human form is the result of a slow evolution through continuous natural selection.

But in fact, when humans became intelligent and became Homo sapiens, nature's choice over Homo sapiens suddenly decreased a lot.

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

It should not be because of aesthetic changes that cause a tendency to natural selection when reproducing populations.

Who knows what the aesthetics of ancient humans were, maybe the more hair, the more popular.

The changes in hair that have occurred during human evolution have puzzled many paleontologists and put forward various speculations.

Now Chen Feng knows the reason.

In the evolutionary history of human populations, there is such a history of the need to rely on swimming to save the survival of the race.

Perhaps after this generation lives again, the hair will return to its original state due to the need for hunting and warmth, but less hair can cope with a more complex environment has been engraved into the memory of human beings, and will be passed on forever, until one day, when human wisdom reaches a certain level, productivity can solve the need for clothing and warmth, the tendency to reduce hair is strongly expressed again, and finally becomes the mainstream.

The rapid evolution of the children has given the population a little respite, and the food source has eased a little.

However, 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 disease death.

In short, the population will continue to decline, but at a much slower rate than in the first month.

The real shift came five months after torrential rains continued to fall.

Five months of lightning and thunder caused the oxygen and hydrogen on the earth to react rapidly, generating more and more water, and the downpour caused the water level of the ocean to continue to rise, and finally formed the appearance of the future earth.

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

The ancient apes were sick and injured from old age to childhood.

No one can go out to forage for food anymore.

The tribe is truly in a desperate situation.

It was on this day that a huge biosubmarine approached Rock Mountain.

In a sense, this cannot be considered a submarine, because there is no air in it at all.

The Osander, whose upper body resembles that of Australopithecus but whose lower body is a fishtail, emerges from the submarine and pokes its head out of the water.

This is a female osthosman.

She is very tall and eight meters long.

She barely managed to squeeze out a smile and waved her hand as kindly as Australopithecus greets each other.

Subsequently, a ladder stretched out from the top of the submarine, which reached the mouth of the cave.

The upper part of the huge submarine began to grow like a plant and a building-like structure that the apes had never imagined.

The submarine became a small floating island.

The remaining eighty-seven Australopithecus supported each other and walked onto the surface of the submarine in a confused and nervous mood.

It was here that the Australopithecus first came into contact with cooked food – grilled fish.

Australopithecus was also exposed to the drug for the first time.

Chen Feng suddenly learned the origin of the fantasy about Noah's Ark in Western mythology, as well as 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 become myths and legends.

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

In the third month, the heavy rain finally stopped, but it was still cloudy, sometimes drizzling, and there were still floods raging outside.

It wasn't until more than seven months later that the warm sun finally filled the earth again, and the ground began to dry again.

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

The picture in front of Chen Feng's eyes came to an abrupt end.

What he saw was a real piece of history.

Chen Feng fell silent.

This is just one of the many things that the Osanders have done for earthlings.

Perhaps this history is more important, so the Fish Star Man hid it in the depths of 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 quickly understood why the fish star people wanted to encrypt it.

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

During the more than 200 days that the apes lived on the surface of the submarine, they received medical assistance from the Osthers, and their DNA information was also deeply sequenced.

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

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

The subsequent so-called evolution is nothing more than pseudo-evolution of directional feature expression, and small variations that occur when different ethnic groups in different places exchange bloodlines with each other.

The nature of human genes has never changed.