• Question: How many years have humans been living on the earth?

    Asked by anon-278599 on 29 Jan 2021.
    • Photo: Liam Taylor

      Liam Taylor answered on 29 Jan 2021:

      We think that the species that we call ‘humans’ first came to be around 200,000 years ago. But for most of that time we were quite like our ancestors! It is only around 15,000 years ago (ish!) that we discovered things like farming and civilisation. And it’s really been a rollercoaster from there! 🙂

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