matter Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 How long have homosapiens been around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudde Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 that's right, it was 100,000 thanks couldn't remember:embarass: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matter Posted November 21, 2003 Author Share Posted November 21, 2003 I tried to google it but oddly enough the results weren't the ones I was looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted November 22, 2003 Share Posted November 22, 2003 I think Homo sapiens dates back to 500,000 years or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matter Posted November 22, 2003 Author Share Posted November 22, 2003 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudde Posted November 22, 2003 Share Posted November 22, 2003 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted November 22, 2003 Share Posted November 22, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlantic Posted November 22, 2003 Share Posted November 22, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VendingMenace Posted November 22, 2003 Share Posted November 22, 2003 cool. can you give us some reasons for 6,000 years?? That would be sweet! or at least interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matter Posted November 23, 2003 Author Share Posted November 23, 2003 fafalone? help me out por favor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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