MadSci Network: Evolution |
The difficult part of this question
has to due to with exactly what you mean by "man".
Modern humans are placed in the genus Homo
and the species sapiens.
The earliest recognized member of the our genus was Homo
habilis, which lived about
2.2 million years ago. They were followed
by Homo erectus around 1 million years ago,
and modern humans (Homo sapiens) appeared around
100,000 years ago.
CLICK
HERE to go to an extremely interesting web site that describes
the human
evolutionary lineage as illustrated in the changing morphology
of the skull. You need to
download the free
shockwave/flash plug-in which you can get from Macromedia.
Try the links in the MadSci Library for more information on Evolution.