• Question: How many years did human life take to get from a cave man to a human

    Asked by Kiwi to Connor, Jillian, Lidunka, Sarah, Steven on 17 Jun 2015.
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      Sarah Beasley answered on 17 Jun 2015:


      Well, it was more of a gradual evolution I think. We’ve seen footprints from nearly 4 million years ago, then again 350,000 years ago. We’ve found the skull of the Neanderthal man from as early as 30,000 BC, but they were only about a metre and a half tall on average.

      There’s another type of man living more recently of up to 40,000 years ago with a more similar bone structure to us. Then in the Stone Age there were stone tools used by humans. There’s a lot of history out there!

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