I have heard we have been around for over a million years!!!
2007-02-06 03:57:08 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Anatomically modern humans arose about 200,000 years ago. Our particular group branched off from the chimpanzee line, our closest living relatives, around 3-5 million years ago. This group included australopithicenes, homo erectus, homo habilus, homo floriensis, all that lot. They'd be our closest relatives if they were still around, and some of them are the equivalent of grandma and great grandma.
Mitochondrial Eve lived about 150,000 years ago. Check out the Wikipedia page on her; it's all kinda cool.
Fundamentalist types put Adam and Eve at around 6000 years ago. There's no evolutionary equivalent, because two people do not make a good breeding population. If the human population were that low, we'd likely go extinct.
2007-02-07 04:47:54 · answer #1 · answered by random6x7 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Adam was unique in that God breathed into him the breath of life-or a soul. There were other peoples at that time. Bible tells us "the sons of God married the daughters of man" nephilium or such in the original language. Prior to all that were the dinosaurs, which would have eaten everything we know today, Cattle hogs sheep dogs etc. Thing is - they were all wiped out by the flood, all the people that were on the planet then. Dinos died out probably from a comet... And then man came along. Adam was right around 6000 yrs ago. This is my belief on what the bible says and the fossil records.
2007-02-07 05:33:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Genesis narrative has no value in regards to seeking knowledge about the natural history of the human race. Adam and eve are merely literary constructs.
2007-02-06 05:05:03 · answer #3 · answered by unassailed 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Someone from 150,000 years ago could pass as being modern man, if appropriately dressed and walking down the street; not so a hominin from 1,000,000 years ago. Adam & Eve may possibly have existed, but they certainly weren't alone several thousand years ago, with Asia, the Americas & Australia already populated.
2007-02-06 04:11:01 · answer #4 · answered by CLICKHEREx 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first hominin fossils (that we are aware of) were those of Sahelanthropus tchadensis, and dating methods have shown them to be about 7-8 million years old. The first Homo sapien fossils, on the other hand, have been found to be around 150-200 thousand years old. However, due to the sparsity of what we actually have in the fossil record (if you didn't care what kind of shape they ended up in, you could fit all of the early hominin specimens we currently possess in the back of an ordinary pickup truck), there could be evidence of older hominin species that we simply have not found yet.
2007-02-06 09:28:35 · answer #5 · answered by Qchan05 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This question is impossible to answer because Adam and Eve did not exist.
The direct ancestors of modern humans have been traced back to approximately 7 million years ago
2007-02-06 04:00:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
adam and eve r just mythological characters. they dint ever exist u c....
so thus we cant exactly know when the myth exactly came up...
its surely not a million years ago :-)
2007-02-06 04:12:37 · answer #7 · answered by T-Bone 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well according to the bible it's 6,000 years or so. But according to evolutionists (which I personally believe) the earth and it's people are over a billion old. Like 6 or so billion.
2007-02-06 07:34:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It really never was a paradise like they say in jewish-christian tradition, but if you want to know how old after them it's more already than 6500 years ago
2007-02-07 08:01:09 · answer #9 · answered by Jesús V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and eve were the first humans made God made them the man first and then the women . and then they re populated the earth and her we are today
2007-02-06 09:09:09 · answer #10 · answered by Rebecca 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋