How old is mankind??

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How old is mankind??

Answer 1

Homo Habilis is generally considered the first of the Homo genus, meaning the first diversion into man. The specimens we have found and determined to be roughly 2.4 - 1.6 million years old depending on the specimen.

The earliest ancestor of man is Ardipithicus Ramidus, who has the earliest signs of bipedalism -- around 4.4 mya. Generally, though Ramidus is debated.

Man, as a genus, has existed for at most 2.4 million years, at least 1.6 million years.

Answer 2

It's funny, I was just thinking the same question ...and whether to begin planning our Birthday party, or leave it for a few hundred thousand years ~ or so!

Sash.

Answer 3

we cant know for sure we dont have the proper proof or everyone would know about it

Answer 4

Old enough to know better

Answer 5

jeesh - found this V quickly - here is the link if you wanna read more

http://www.alternativescience.com/origin...

How old is Mankind?

Some participants in NBC's science special, Mysterious Origins of Man were scientists who have been attacked and ridiculed because of their discoveries. One of my fellow broadcasters had a fascinating tale to tell.

The view of the history of man accepted by conventional archaeology is that Homo sapiens evolved roughly 30,000 to 50,000 years ago in Eurasia. Later, humans crossed the Bering Straits land bridge into North America around 15,000 years ago. Thus there cannot be any indigenous man-made artefacts in North or South America older than around this date.

The trouble with this theory is that it can be maintained only by ignoring literally scores of archaeological finds that are unquestionably much older.

It was the discoverer of one such find, Dr Viriginia Steen-McIntyre, who had such an interesting story to tell. In the late 1960s, Steen-McIntyre and Harold Malde, both of the U.S. Geological Survey and Roald Fryxell of Washington State University, were working under a grant from the National Science Foundation at a site called Hueyatlaco (pronounced way-at-larko) 75 miles south east of Mexico City.

Steen-McIntyre and her colleagues found very sophisticated stone tools there, rivalling the best work of Cro-Magnon man in Europe. The scientists applied four dating methods to the finds and the strata in which they were found: uranium series dating; fission track dating; tephra hydration dating and mineral weathering study. The four methods yielded a unanimous date of around 250,000 years.

This finding fundamentally contradicts the belief of anthropology not only in the New World but regarding the whole history of mankind. People capable of making the kind of stone tools found at Hueyatlaco are thought not to have come into existence until around 100,000 years ago, in Africa.

Answer 6

Probably as old as womenkind.

Answer 7

It is believed due to genetic statistical data that "anatomically modern" humans evolved around 200,000 years ago. However, these did not look exactly like us and did not bear all of the culture traits we eventually had.

Answer 8

Can anybody name anything that has evolved in the last 2 or 3 thousand years. I mean evolved from one form to another. As far as we know everything that is here today has always been here, unchanged.

Answer 9

older than you think son,,Mwwhahar!!

oh yeh and while I'm on,,define "mankind" for me??

Answer 10

Roughly 2 to 4 million years.

Its VERY debatable, and the evidence is very scarce.

Trying to come up with a definition of what is "mankind"

is quite a task in itself.

Answer 11

Defining what you mean by mankind would be helpfull. modern man is only about 40,000 years old.

Answer 12

Most of us stem from some San people that left Africa 50,000 to 70,000 years ago. How old the San people are, is another question.

The fossil record is frequently;y changing from a bush with few, to a BUSH WITH NUMEROUS BRANCHES MISSING.

Answer 13

Depending on who you choose to believe.

Evolution has an unsupported idea governed by a great deal of faith in the knowledge of the last few centuries. They would boastfully say with much pride that man has been around for a very long time, millions of years.

Creation has a very well supported idea governed by a great deal of faith also, going back at least 6,000 years. They will say that man was created by an all knowing God in His image and that man has been around for about 6,000 years.

History and geology (hard facts) prove the later better than it does the previous position.

Answer 14

Just because as a geologist I cannot let someone suggest geology in anyway doesn't support evolution.  "Hard facts" supports it in a number of ways such as supporting the ancient age of the earth and providing numerous fossils that prove evolution to all but those who refuse to look at the evidence. Regarding your question, it depends of the definition of mankind.  If that means Homo sapiens, then it probably goes back a little over 200,000 years.