Re: How Long has it taken for apes to evolve into man?

Date: Fri Feb 25 15:59:33 2000
Posted By: Mike Klymkowsky, Professor
Area of science: Evolution
ID: 946913896.Ev

Message:

reversal

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.

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