In what era, period, and epoch did the first humans emerge?

Question

In what era, period, and epoch did the first humans emerge?

Answer 1

If you believe the c**p your reading here, you will end up as crazy as they are. There is no evidence for lengths of time, or eons , or era's,  or whatever you like to call it. There is no evidence for evolution either, as in, ( it creates new species) That is all dream weaving rubbish. We might as well go back to our Bible's and Koran's and Torah's. At least they have some sort of message for the masses worth practising as with regard to our morals. Anyone with half a brain can see the way humanity is going while our religions go down the plughole, and their so called evolution ain't going to solve this one.

Answer 2

I agree with "eternal". We both assume you mean modern humans like us. Neanderthal was, of course, earlier and cannot be considered, "modern humans"!

Yes, we were black, if you like the term. Every human alive on the planet for about the last 35 to 40,000 years has been what we call...modern humans.

Our official designation is Homo Sapiens Sapiens. We, therefore, have but one race extant on the planet; it are us.

I realize that we were taught, by science, that there were three basic groups. This was before we had the technology to trace the human genome. We now have it; it’s been done, we are all of the same race.

Bigots and other poorly educated people will not like this and they may not believe it. Reality, thankfully, is in no way effected by the opinions of anybody, especially, the uninformed.

I see people in here saying things like, "well if we came from apes why are there still apes".

Many people believe that if an idea does not make sense, to them, or in unpleasant to them, it must, therefore, be invalid. This is simply never the case. In most cases the nonbeliever simply does not have either the education or intellect necessary to understand the concept in question.

An idea is not invalid because everybody on the planet, save the one who derived the idea, decides that it just ain't so and they all refute it. If, however, the idea is valid, the popular vote is meaningless as it applies to actual knowledge and reality.

Now the exception to this is the extent the non believers are wiling go to enforce their misconception? Copernicus, a very smart Polish Monk figured out that when he published his findings refuting the Aristotelian/Ptolemaic earth view, the official church view, taught for over 1000 years by everybody and believed by everybody, he had better do so anonymously.  He was a monk, he knew full well that the “all loving church” reserved a special place on the “stake” for people who would refute whatever misconception the church held dear.

Galileo was more naïve and paid for his trust in the individual who was supposed to be his friend, the then Pope.

So while opinion, misconception and downright stupidity does not effect reality…it has, in history, very much effected the health and welfare of smart people.

Answer 3

Roughly 195,000 years ago, in and around Kenya & Tanzania!