Here, meet our relatives:
Australopithecus ramidus - 5 to 4 million years ago
Australopithecus afarensis - 4 to 2.7 million years ago
Australopithecus africanus - 3.0 to 2.0 million years ago
Australopithecus robustus - 2.2 to 1.0 million years ago
Homo habilis - 2.2 to 1.6 million years ago
Homo erectus - 2 to 0.4 million years ago
Homo sapiens - 400,000 to 200,000 years ago
Homo sapiens neandertalensis - 200,000 to 30,000 years ago
Homo sapiens sapiens - 130,000 years ago to present
Pick which one you prefer as the beginning of the human race, as go from there. The problem is, what do you call "Human", what do you call "Homonid"?
Probably I'd go with H habilus or H erectus, they were probably most easily recognisable as humans, and their intelligence was not too different to ours, gathering by their stone tool use and living habits. So about 2 million years old.
2007-02-21 10:37:44
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answered by Labsci 7
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The lineage that brought us to our present form separated from the great apes (not monkeys) 6 million years ago, give a day or two.
2007-02-23 09:33:24
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answered by Anonymous
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Get three Anthropologists together, and you will get three different answers. You have to come up with a time when that first spark of intelligence lit up in some ancient brain, and that kind of stuff does not fossilise. There really is no consensus.
2007-02-21 18:17:04
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answered by Anonymous
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In one form or another several million years old.
2007-02-21 17:46:02
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answered by ? 6
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oldest homo sapiens remains are estimated to be around 100000 years old
Home neanderthalensis restet on earth 200000 years long and vanished 30000 years ago with last remains in spain
2007-02-21 17:40:41
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answered by Anonymous
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Well according to government figures i am middle aged
2007-02-21 17:53:51
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answered by Anonymous
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uh, let me think........when did the ship land? About 5000 years ago.
2007-02-21 18:33:22
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answered by Mon-chu' 7
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