• Question: I would love to know, if this world were to revert back 100,000 years. What would you study or do first?

    Asked by Sapienchild.H on 6 Mar 2026.
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      James Lazenby answered on 6 Mar 2026:

      100 000 years ago humans were still very primitive living in small nomadic families of hunter-gatherers. This is commonly referred to as “the stone age” because humans had started making and using stone tools. This is also one of the last times in which humans (or Homo sapiens) weren’t the only humanoid with recognisable intelligence living on earth. Humans interacted with Neanderthals and perhaps Homo floresiensis and Homo erectus.

      If I were to go back and know what I know now, I think my main thing to do would be to ingratiate myself with a Neanderthal family as my size would be an advantage and they were a bit slower than Homo sapiens. I would then start them into building permanent shelters and cultivating food (herding animals and growing crops), instead of relying of hunting and foraging. But it would be a fairly hard life.

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      Andrew Senior answered on 7 Mar 2026:

      Well, lets say hypothetically i had everything i needed. I would first want to prove that the theories that humans originated from west africa are true. I’d sequence genomes of people across the world and see how the patterns of genetic variations and geography support this theory.

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      Erin Jarvis answered on 8 Mar 2026:

      If I could go back all that time and still know everything I do now, I’d really like to investigate diseases generally and the things people did to cure them. There’s actually lots of information out there about what people did to cure various illnesses in ancient times (not quite 100,000 years ago!) using lots of potions containing honey, vinegar and plants. Sadly some of this has been lost to time although some very cool people are still looking into it. I think it would be really fascinating to see what people did when they got sick before proper medicine was invented, and see what of that we’d be able to still use today.

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      OLUWAROTIMI MICHAEL POPOOLA answered on 9 Mar 2026:

      My study will be Invention Engineering, exploring more discoveries to benefit human race

Comments

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    Martin commented on :

    What a great question! I’d probably forget about humans if I had the chance, and go to places before humanity gets there! We’ve made so many species extinct over time, and I’d love to see and study all the prehistoric giant land birds in Madagascar or New Zealand, or the now extinct giant marsupials and monitor lizards of Australia, or ground sloths in South America! That would be so cool!