How long did it take for man kind to get where its at today???

Question

How long did it take for man kind to get where its at today???

Answer 1

We've had growth spurts.  Some of them unbelievable and unexplainable by paleontologists and scientists of evolution.  The last 100 years has been one of them.

Unfortunately our technology growth has surpassed our spirituality growth & without those two in synch, it has hurt us.  

Right now we are like a plant spilling out from it's container.  Humans on Earth will soon be "pot-bound" and require a huge trimming back.

That is unless certain religious groups, who shall remain nameless, stop irresponsibly, wontonly convincing people birth control is a sin.

Answer 2

Not long enough!  We've still got a long way to go.

Answer 3

A bit over 6 million years according to the latest hominid fossil finds. About 1.5 million yrs ago Homo erectus learned to make fire & wandered out of Africa.  It took ~5.8 million years for the 1st sapiens to evolve, then another 100,000 yrs for sapien to wander out of Africa to the mid east & eventually to Asia then Europe.  Some 40,000 years ago sapien began to express themselves with art... the precursor to writing.  Something happened about 10,000 years ago & sapien developed agriculture allowing more time for socialization & leading to crude forms of writing some 7,000 yrs ago.  About 6,000 yrs ago sapien began to make expodential leaps in technology that has continued to accellerate to the point that accumulated knowledge is doubling in less than a year today.  Writing & general litreracy is probably our greatest technological achievement.

Answer 4

all of history. duh.

We've never stopped evolving or adding to our world.

But we had lots of quick growth spurts, where mankind would grow alot very quickly in a short time frame. The current one is nearly over. The last one was probably the renaissance. This spurt has taught mankind a great deal.

In the last 150 years we've had:

1. An industrial revolution,

2. A runway arms race - starting with the Gatling gun to the atom bomb

3. a dangerous nuclear weapon race,

4. learned a power more powerful than god (nuclear weapons can kill everything on earth)

5. Invented revolutionary methods to communicate with each other

6. physically left the planet

7. understand how the human body works

8. learned how life works

9. defined the atom and the various elements

10. explored every bit of land on the planet.

11. learned nuclear radiation is no laughing matter.

12. learned how to take care of our selves

13. under stood ho the brain works

14. learned how to fly and build self-propelled machines

15. made electricity and stored it, used it

16. learned how dna works and how to use it

17. cloned a organism

18. taught human thoughts to a machine

19. and learned how to build stuff on an atomic scale (nano this, nano that)

And that pretty much sums up what we've done in this spurt. Then we'll have a couple centuries with little advancement, and another spurt around 2500 or 2600 ad.

Answer 5

I once read a book by a geneticist. He states that if you put all of time since the beginning of earth on a 24 hour clock, modern humans ( distinct homo sapien species) would make an appearance about 1 minute before midnight. We got here very late but we probably have done the most damage. will we survive the consequences of our acts on the environment, only time will tell.

Answer 6

Human existance can be dated back as far as 60,000 years ago; however, the people of Mesopotamia have been considered as the first civilized people.  It is believed that Mesopotamia thrived around the 5th century BC.

Answer 7

About 4 million years, with lots of work from out ancestors.

About 6 million years ago the ancestor of the Chimpanzee split from our ancestor and went their separate way.

This simple fact apparently eludes those who do not accept the fact of evolution.