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      • The earliest record of Homo is the 2.8 million-year-old specimen LD 350-1 from Ethiopia, and the earliest named species are Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis which evolved by 2.3 million years ago.
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  2. 6 days ago · human evolution, the process by which human beings developed on Earth from now-extinct primates. Viewed zoologically, we humans are Homo sapiens, a culture-bearing upright-walking species that lives on the ground and very likely first evolved in Africa about 315,000 years ago.

  3. Mar 1, 2022 · It took 13.8 billion years of cosmic history for the first human beings to arrive, and we did so relatively recently: just 300,000 years ago. 99.998% of the time that passed since the Big...

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  4. Jan 3, 2024 · Overview: The species that you and all other living human beings on this planet belong to is Homo sapiens. During a time of dramatic climate change 300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens evolved in Africa. Like other early humans that were living at this time, they gathered and hunted food, and evolved behaviors that helped them respond to the ...

  5. Until recently, H. sapiens was thought to have evolved approximately 200,000 years ago in East Africa. This estimate was shaped by the discovery in 1967 of the oldest remains attributed to H. sapiens, at a site in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley.

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  6. Apr 6, 2012 · April 6, 20121:00 PM ET. Heard on Talk of the Nation. The first Homo sapiens appeared on the planet some 200,000 years ago. But even though they looked fully human, they didn't act fully human...

  7. Jan 3, 2024 · Hominins first appear by around 6 million years ago, in the Miocene epoch, which ended about 5.3 million years ago. Our evolutionary path takes us through the Pliocene, the Pleistocene, and finally into the Holocene, starting about 12,000 years ago. The Anthropocene would follow the Holocene.

  8. May 15, 2019 · It took 13.8 billion years of cosmic history for the first human beings to arise, and we did so relatively recently: just 300,000 years ago. 99.998% of the time that passed since the Big Bang...

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