How Old Is the Human Race?

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Not old enough in my opinion. We still get grown men and women acting like laaitjies in society!
 
Aquila ka Hecate said:
Yeah, I wasn't paying the sharpest attention, either.
I think that 6-12 K figure is for agricultural humanity; stone tools have been found dating back to around 350 000 years ago.
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350 000 years ago. If people have been around for that long - then were are all the human fossils and bones? There should be loads.
 
Patrick_Hockstetter said:
350 000 years ago. If people have been around for that long - then were are all the human fossils and bones? There should be loads.
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There are. Homo Habilis has been using tools around 2million years ago. Although we are finding even older tools.

http://australianmuseum.net.au/Homo-habilis

Seems like the oldest tools we have found are 2.6million years old:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldowan

http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/behavior/tools/early-tools
 
Patrick_Hockstetter said:
350 000 years ago. If people have been around for that long - then were are all the human fossils and bones? There should be loads.
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You've watched to many Indiana Jones movies. Go dig up a hundred year old grave and see how much is left. Animal remains are only preserved for any amount of time under very special circumstances.
 
joelus said:
Patrick asked


You fail...
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Um no. You're focussing on the wrong part of his question. If you read between the lines of Patricks question you'll see that he doesn't have any knowledge of prehistory whatsoever. He finds it hard to believe that we can find tools from 350 000 years ago.

So the correct thing to do is educate him a bit and show him that tools are in fact older than homosapiens.

Well that or could be a dick like you.
 
Chevron said:
Um no. You're focussing on the wrong part of his question. If you read between the lines of Patricks question you'll see that he doesn't have any knowledge of prehistory whatsoever. He finds it hard to believe that we can find tools from 350 000 years ago.

So the correct thing to do is educate him a bit and show him that tools are in fact older than homosapiens.

Well that or could be a dick like you.
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Or in your case both. He specifically asked for human fossils and tools and you gave him something else.
 
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