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Cats- Cats can be traced back to about 12 million years ago, quite awhile, and yet they are quite the same .
Oh they may be bigger smaller, different color etc.
Now what about humanoids?
We will be truly grasping in the wind if we say 80,000 years ago.
But never the less some will say 135,000 or 200000 years ago, it is only a blink, a boink in time compared top the rest of known breathers.
Whichever year you wish to grasp the answer is, is a SO SHORT TIME ago, comparatively speaking to other known species.
So no the cat is not the answer.
They have remained pretty much as they were /are for millions of years.
The human is almost an unwelcomed pest that landed here by some mistake .
However, how come we can really only trace them back about 6000 years?
If they (we) have been around for so long......
I truly doubt our brains changed much between now and 6000 years ago or 600 years B4 that.
Yet 6000 years ago they started to articulate words..........

I ramble yes, i postulate yes.
But the frame work for the answer is there, or at least the question.
Once we look at the 3.5 billion year timeline, and so many other creatures..no humanoids.
Until a minute ago.
Boink, blink whichever you choose.
IF we evolved ( and this is NOT to be construed as any other argument or postulation as stated )
It should be EZ to see the trail of misfits and misery.
blink.