Where did homosapiens come from?

Answer 1

As far as we know, Homo Sapiens evolved from an earlier species of man (or hominid) called Homo Erectus. Both species originated in Africa.

Modern Homo Sapiens (that's us) are only about 25,000 years old. However, the very earliest Homo Sapiens may have appeared 200,000 years ago, still a short time when your talking about human evolution.

In Homo Sapiens, the brain is larger and the eye ridges are smaller than in Homo Erectus. In Homo Erectus, the eyes were still located at the front of the brain. In Homo Sapiens, they are located underneath the brain. (See Carlton S. Coon - "The Origin of Races." 1962).

The transition from Homo Erectus to Homo Sapiens was very gradual. Like one anthropologist once said: "There was no exact moment when one Homo Erectus mother gave birth to a Homo Sapiens child."

In 1960, archeologists found the skeleton of a prehistoric man in the Petralona Cave of Greece that is rougly midway between a Homo Erectus and a modern Homo Sapiens. He had some features of both species. He was estimated to be about 300,000 years old. Scientists later named him "Archanthropus."

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Answer 2

Homo sapiens evolved probably from Homo heidelbergensis. Heidelbergensis was sometimes a very large and powerful hominid that was somewhat similar to Neanderthals and in fact was the common ancestor with humans and neanderthals (theoretically). Heidelbergensis probably evovled from Homo erectus or a very closely related species. Homo erectus evolved from an Australopithecine. Australopithecines are bipedal apes. These apes evovled from previous bipedal apes such as Ardipithecus or Sahelanthropus. This put it back about 7 million years when there is a big gap. H. sapiens have been around for about 200,000 according to most paleoanthropologists. Although there is a religious fevor insisting they came from Africa, in reality our ancestors were probably living in Asia for millions of years as well so there is no certainty of the out of Africa at all.

Answer 3

most scientific minds will agree at some point we evolved from a common ancestor.. we are NOT directly related to apes in any way. if you think of the earths age, she has been around a trillion times longer than humans have existed, so obviously this is a very long rpocess in which the final gentic mutation that made this ape link walk up right, took forever to occur.

Answer 4

I know for sure that some came from New Jersey, just last week.

Answer 5

From monkeys

Answer 6

God created us.