humans

pinkoyellow · #1 Sep 4, 2003, 06:54 PM

how long have humans inhabited the earth?
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rrt69 · Apr 15, 2004, 06:00 PM

100 of billion of years

nishant_yagnick · Jul 2, 2004, 11:20 PM

present day species of humans....homo sapiens sapeins have seemed to emerged around 25000 yrs ago. though our earliest, man like ancestors like australopithecus were existing 5 million yrs ago

CompletelyBroken · Nov 16, 2004, 01:22 PM

Hello,
Actually, the oldest fossils of anatomically modern Homo Sapiens have been found in Africa, and were dated to be about 130,000 years old.

The earliest pre-humans date back to about 4.5 million years ago.

Check out the Smithsonian site for more information, it is quite interesting:

http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanor...ha/a_tree.html

Mark



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