• Question: how long did it take us to evolve?

    Asked by jayp to Becki, Rick on 28 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Rebecca Scott

      Rebecca Scott answered on 28 Jun 2013:

      quite a long time…the ‘human’ species which have the distinction ‘homo’ emerged around 2.3 million years ago. The first of these was homo habilis or the tool maker. Archaic homo sapiens (the branch of the species that we evolved from) emerged from their ancestors between 400,000 and 250,000 years ago.

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