How old is humanity?

Question

How long have humans existed? And none of the bs 6,000 earth year old bible c**p.

Answer 1

i think its about 200,000 years.

Answer 2

Wouldn't it depend on exactly what you're using as a cut-off point? Any such point will be arbitrary to some extent.

Here is a link you could peruse:

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life...

Answer 3

about 4 million, depending on what you call human.  or maybe about a week if you know the people I know.  and the Bible c**p is about the earth being 6000 years old which is even more ridiculous  

Answer 4

Population studies, using known and accepted scientific formulas, estimate the current global population is about what you would expect if mankind originated around 4-6000 years ago. Had mankind originated around 2-500,000 years ago, the current global population would exceed the number of atoms in the universe....even using an origin of 25,000 years ago and using the lowest reproductive rate ever seen, the current global population would still exceed 140 billion people.

No "Bible" c**p involved...just science, mathematics.

http://www.ldolphin.org/popul.html

http://www.kolbecenter.org/heffner_popul...

Answer 5

no one knows. not even the know it all scientest...

Answer 6

Modern Homo sapiens as a species is about 195,000 to 200,000 years old.

Human like beings have existed much longer.  Australopithecus anamensis specimens are in the range of 3.9 to 4.2 million years old.  But there are many questions as to how "human" these beings were.

Answer 7

Human-like activity for 2 million years.

Answer 8

Panther is right. It's thought to be 200,000 to 250,000 years. And by that, we mean genetically modern homo sapiens sapiens, people more or less just like us.

Answer 9

Homo Sapiens or Hominids as a genus?

Answer 10

i would say about 2 millions years