the earliest known fossils of human being is called??

Answer 1

Of the genus Homo, the earliest were Homo habilis, 2.4 to 1.5 million years ago.

Answer 2

The scientific community now generally agrees that between 5 and 8 million years ago there lived in Africa a hominoid which would ultimately give rise to the first hominids and later the members of the genus Homo. This period of time was during the end of the Miocence epoch, during which a drying period enveloped equatorial Africa. As a result of this drying, the Miocene forest began to shrink, forcing the apes living in the Miocene forest to begin to make the transition to a terrestrial way of live. Many of the genera of apes at the time likely became extinct during the transition, and those that made the transition to terrestrial life survived. The early apes that began to live on the emerging African savannah likely retained their aboreal abilities, being active on the savannah during the day to return to the trees at night. From at least one of these early terrestrial apes would evolve humankind as it is today.

Answer 3

Nat' Academies Press, Science and Creationism: A View from the ...Australopithecus, whose earliest known fossils are about four million years old, ... that divine intervention actively guided the evolution of human beings. ...
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