Simple question

[matter]

How long have homosapiens been around?

[Dudde]

that's right, it was 100,000

 

thanks

couldn't remember:embarass:

[matter]

I tried to google it but oddly enough the results weren't the ones I was looking for.

[swansont]

I think Homo sapiens dates back to 500,000 years or so.

[matter]

How old is the oldest civilization? How far back was the last known recorded history?

 

I guess I'll reveal my reasons for asking these questions. I've been wondering something. It's pretty lame and I bet everyone has wondered the same thing also. In the last 100 years our technology has exploded. So let's say the oldest real civilization is 20,000 years old. Recently our progress has been pretty swift compared to race time or earth time. So why did it take our race so long to get where we are from 100 thousand years ago? Just in the last 5,000 years we've come a reasonably long way, right? So that leaves roughly 90,000 years before. So why'd it take so long?

 

Are the reasons that the race was too thinly populated around the globe? If we had the capacity of our modern brain back then, shouldn't our ancestors have advanced faster?

[Dudde]

homo sapien sapiens have been around....it's either 10 or 50 thousand years

 

or 500, I can't remember. I know there's a 1 or a 5 and a couple zero's after though.

why not google it?

[swansont]

Here is the talk.origins FAQ on the topic.

 

H. sapiens dates back to about 500,000 years. Anatomically modern humans (H. sapiens sapiens) dates back about 120,000 years.

[Atlantic]

I shall stand by my 6,000 years.

 

Back grade 11, i had a 6 hour debate on this question, with 3 15minute breaks. Me and 2 other allies left other 8 competitors (other side of the debate) speachless.

[VendingMenace]

cool. can you give us some reasons for 6,000 years?? That would be sweet! or at least interesting

[matter]

fafalone? help me out por favor.