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Michael Button

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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2368 - Michael Button

And the crazy thing is...

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2368 - Michael Button

Joe, do you know how many homo sapiens sites we have from more than 100,000 years ago?

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2368 - Michael Button

We have nine sites, nine glimpses, nine snapshots into over 200,000 years of history.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2368 - Michael Button

Nine moments in time.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2368 - Michael Button

And we use that to extrapolate out what every single human was doing.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2368 - Michael Button

It's usually caves and it's usually just, you know, remains of fire pits and stone tools.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2368 - Michael Button

And that's kind of it.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2368 - Michael Button

And so we see that and we think, okay, they just lived in caves and used stone tools.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2368 - Michael Button

But it's nine sites, nine moments in time for 200,000 years.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2368 - Michael Button

Humans can do so many different things.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2368 - Michael Button

And as you say, right now we're sending rockets to space and people are living in very traditional ways of life.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2368 - Michael Button

And just because we find traditional ways of life in, I repeat, nine sites to cover 200,000 years, in my view, that's just what we can see.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2368 - Michael Button

That kind of points to my point regarding what would possibly survive.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2368 - Michael Button

Because if you think of all the human lives, stories, cultures that have...