If I could go back in time and take the first true human.?

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and if I was to bring him back to modern times (ignoring the plethora of paradoxes ) and I treated him or her like any other person. Would there be any differences and if so what?! (I know its hard to define whats actually a human when we are in this time, but you know what i mean)

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im taking him/her as soon as they are born btw

APB · Accepted Answer

if you took the first fully modern human and raised them in today's time they would be know different than a child born today or a hundred years ago. he/she would have they same capabilites as any other person

? · Answer

Well Asians have the highest IQs on average Blacks and Aboriginals have the lowest IQs.

So if this difference exists in modern humans then of course the earliest ones are going to be quite different!

gardengallivant · Answer

Asimov's short story "The Ugly Little Boy" is about that very question except the time traveler brings a Homo neanderthalensis child forward.

Since the Homo neanderthalensis genome sequencing has shown that Homo sapiens interbred with H. neanderthalensis you can say they are true humans.
Neanderthal Genome sequencing has revealed our common humanity
http://www.michaelshermer.com/2010/08/our-neandertal-brethren/

Eddie · Answer

it depends what u mean by human, if you got a Neanderthal then no they would still be very animalistic but if you took the first modern human then there would be no difference

? · Answer

well besides not knowing the language, and having a heart attack from the shock of seeing the world in such a state, then he would probably say, ughh *grunt* hmm

If I could go back in time and take the first true human.?

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