I had another epiphany today after rewatching “The Day After Tomorrow.” 😀

I got curious about the last ice age and discovered that for about 96% of our species’ history, humans lived during the Ice Age! 

Modern humans are essentially Ice Age survivors—our intelligence, adaptability, and social cooperation all evolved under those tough conditions. That’s roughly 288,000 years?! 🤯

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Yes, taken that into account some accounts of crazy survival, it makes sense that it has been built into our DNA

That’s wild to think about! We’re basically built for survival

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Right?! Somehow I wasn’t conscious about that fact! 🥶

That’s interesting, I have never thought about this 😳

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And the only survivors of these natives, the Eskimos, now prefer to settle in the frozen lands of the North.

Here's the crazy part, Neanderthals (our close cousins) in frozen Europe actually had shorter, more muscular bodies to conserve heat better! But us Homo sapiens? We rocked bigger brains and better tech (think warmer clothes and smarter tools) to beat the challenges.