how old is human kind?

Question

if human kind evolution is less than a lizard for example? why is man a earth dominate species

Answer 1

the oldest ever found homo sapiens sapiens (proper name for humnas) skulls were carbon dated and foundto be around around 160 thousand years ago
heres a link to prove it

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/06/11_idaltu.shtml

Answer 2

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Answer 3

We are the dominant species because we managed, understood and controlled our environment through our large brain and natural adaptability...we as a species have been around in this form for about 100.000 years

Answer 4

Our species is about 125,000 years old... but for a long time after that, people didn't think like us. The "cultural revolution" happened about 50,000 years ago.

More, agriculture has been invented independently at different times and places, but it looks like it started catching on about 20,000 years ago.

Answer 5

Man has been around for about 6000 years.

The current world population of 6 billion has arisen from 8 people around 4500 years ago (Noah and family). The population growth rate is a modest 0.5%.
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/393

If we have evolved over millions of years then where are all the people! We simply don't see evidence of countless billions of ancestors.

And of course most dating methods indicate that the earth is young:
Not enough salt in the sea.
Recession of the moon.
Helium in the wrong places.
Carbon 14 in coal.
Decay of earth's magnetic field.
And many more
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3040/

Answer 6

/me waits for all the religious nutters to answer on when adam and eve were created, and how old Methusela was lol.

I concur though, humankind as we know it is about 100,000 years old.......our success is all down to the good old opposable thumb as well :)

Answer 7

About 4,000 years old. 100 reasons why evolution is so stupid ... video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6814048597272982882

Answer 8

We are as old as the earth, find that out and there'll be no God!

Answer 9

HOLOCENE EPOCH ("recent") zero to 10,000:

First civilisations with cities, agriculture and domesticated animals emerge. Humans reduce biological diversity to the lowest level since the end of the Mesozoic era, 65 million years ago (Wilson, 1989). Humans use metals, coal, oil and other natural resources.

The warmest period of the Holocene, a thermal maximum, was attained by 6,000 to 7,000 years ago. Between 2,500 and 4,500 years ago, global climates cooled, a period known as the Iron Age neoglaciation. A slight warming then occurred, followed by a return to cooler climates after 500 A.D. (the Dark Ages). Around 900 to 1300 A.D. (Medieval Optimum), European temperatures attained the warmest levels of the last 4,000 years. After 1450 A.D., there was steady return to colder conditions (called the " Little Ice Age ") through further glacial advance. Human activities may have stopped this and started a phase of global warming .

PLEISTOCENE EPOCH ("the most recent") 10,000 to 1.8 Mya:

The last glacial maximum (coolest period) occurred 18,000 years ago. Northern Hemisphere ice sheets had retreated by 14,000 years ago. At the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene Epochs, about 10,000 to 11,000 years ago, a rapid cooling, called the Younger Dryas Cooling , occurred. This was followed by a rapid rise in temperatures and the end of the ice age.


Evolution of Homo sapiens from primitive Homo species. Use of fire, tools, weapons. Increase in human brain volume. Mammoths and woolly rhinoceros flourish. Homo erectus emerges 1.6 Mya and uses fire by 1 Mya. Homo neanderthalensis emerges by 300,000 years ago. and other large mammals become extinct 11,000 years ago, possibly through a combination of climate change and human hunting. From 130,000 years ago to 20,000 years ago , our global climate has progressively cooled and then warmed rapidly back to the temperatures of the interglacial period of 130,000 years ago. Within the past 2.5 million years (http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/gccsg/), the climate has varied between six degrees Celsius.

[1.2] UPPER TERTIARY PERIOD:

PLIOCENE EPOCH 1.8 to 5 Mya:

Origin of early human ancestor, Australopithecus afarensis (4 Mya), in Africa. Many large mammals now roam the earth. Birds and mammals similar to modern forms. Sea life similar to today's. Hominid bipedalism emerges by 4 Mya and use of stone tools by 2 Mya.


MIOCENE EPOCH 5 to 23 Mya:

Modern animals, flowering plants and trees. Grazing animals. Hoofed animals and primates diversify. Apes are found in Asia and Africa. A new group of primates, the dryomorphs evolves (Dryopithecus fontani). Proconsul africanus is a very early dryomorph, or the immediate dryomorph ancestor. This small primate had a skull, jaws and teeth that were apelike. Its long trunk, arms and finger bones were monkeylike. Middle Miocene dryomorph descendants of Proconsul are possibly ancestral to both modern African apes and the first homonids, the australopithecines. It lived from approximately 23 to 14 million years ago. The chimpanzee and hominid lines evolve 12 to 20 Mya. A significant cooling transition occurrs 10 to15 Mya). This is reflected in an increase in the d18 O record between 14 and 15Ma, caused by the rapid growth of the Antarctic ice sheet (Shackleton & Kennet, 1975) and a deep water cooling event (4 to 5°C) (Moore et al., 1987).



[1.3] LOWER TERTIARY PERIOD:

OLIGOCENE EPOCH 23 to 34 Mya:

Climates cooled during the Oligocene. Origin of tailless anthropoid ape, Aegyptopithecus 28-33 mya (Gribbin and Cherfas, 2001). (Aegyptopithecus zeuxis, dated from 33 to 34 mya). Three-toed horse ancestors, Mesohippus . Birds plentiful (eg. parrots and pigeons). Cats and dogs present. Rapid continental ice formation took place at this time. Prosimian ranges are reduced to the warmer climates of Asia, Africa and the East Indies. Another ape fossil is Propliopithecus.

EOCENE EPOCH 38 to 54 Mya (Berkeley.edu):

Eocene (55 to 50Ma) was the warmest period during the Cenozoic. First primates (50 Mya) that would eventually lead to humanity. Eosimias evolves about 45 million years ago as (a posssible) ancestor to both prosimians and anthropoids. Early horse ancestor, Hyracotherium (Eohippus). It had a four toed forefoot and three-toed hind foot. Abundant modern mammals and angiosperms. Most of the living placental orders emerge. Rabbits and hares have evolved by 55 Mya. Tarsiers and lemurs (primates within the sub-order Prosimii) are found throughout the continents of the northern hemisphere. Notharctus sp., is a possible prosimian descendant from which monkeys and apes are derived. Lemur-like creatures evolve 50 mya. Sub-order Strepsirhini (Omomyidae sp.) has nails on digits and excellent eyesight. The first monkeys, infra-order Catarrhini, with great binocular vision, and higher intelligence, evolves 40 mya (Apidium and Catopithecus browni)

Answer 10

bigger brains,which gave us the ability to reason.