How old is the human race?

Question

How old is the human race?

Answer 1

Here, meet our relatives:

Australopithecus ramidus - 5 to 4 million years ago

Australopithecus afarensis - 4 to 2.7 million years ago

Australopithecus africanus - 3.0 to 2.0 million years ago

Australopithecus robustus - 2.2 to 1.0 million years ago

Homo habilis - 2.2 to 1.6 million years ago

Homo erectus - 2 to 0.4 million years ago

Homo sapiens - 400,000 to 200,000 years ago

Homo sapiens neandertalensis - 200,000 to 30,000 years ago

Homo sapiens sapiens - 130,000 years ago to present

Pick which one you prefer as the beginning of the human race, as go from there. The problem is, what do you call "Human", what do you call "Homonid"?

Probably I'd go with H habilus or H erectus, they were probably most easily recognisable as humans, and their intelligence was not too different to ours, gathering by their stone tool use and living habits.  So about 2 million years old.

Answer 2

The lineage that brought us to our present form separated from the great apes (not monkeys) 6 million years ago, give a day or two.

Answer 3

oldest homo sapiens remains are estimated to be around 100000 years old

Home neanderthalensis restet on earth 200000 years long and vanished 30000 years ago with last remains in spain

Answer 4

uh, let me think........when did the ship land? About 5000 years ago.

Answer 5

In one form or another several million years old.

Answer 6

Well according to government figures i am middle aged

Answer 7

Get three Anthropologists together, and you will get three different answers.  You have to come up with a time when that first spark of intelligence lit up in some ancient brain, and that kind of stuff does not fossilise.  There really is no consensus.