when was the earlest date that prehistoric apes came into existance?
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http://www.becominghuman.org/\n\nYou'll get a lot of the story here - nice site.\n\nMonkeys are not apes - apes are chimps and bonobos and gibbons and gorillas and orangutangs.  They're primates, though, for sure.
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Neanderthal period if this is spelled right. Just about the time that the Jurassic period was about to end. This is the best guess I can give you.
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About 4600 million years.
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Some people, I swear, are not qualified to answer here. \nThere is a 65 million year gap between the cenozoic and mesozoic eras.  Hominins, or human ancestry, began in the cenozoic while dinosaurs rose, and fell, in the earlier mesozoic.  Also rising in the mesozoic were early mammals...long before any humans.  Most of these were mouse-shaped.  Look in any biology textbook and you can find these general concepts.  Also check out your local museums.
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50 million years ago, a UFO landed on the earth...\n\nJust kidding.
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Orangutans are anthropoid apes or great apes. The living anthropoid apes consist of Chimpanzees, Bonobos, Gorillas, Orangutans, and of course, Humans. Gigantopithecus lived as recently as 50,000 years ago in Southeast Asia, and some think they may still exist, deep in the jungles.
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There is numerous concrete fossil evidence of the lineage leading from apes to man, from the fossils of Australopithecus afarenesis, A. africanus, and other Australopithecines which do not appear to be in the line leading to humans, to the early Homo species, such as Homo habilis and Homo erectus, to the archaic Homo sapiens specimens to anatomically modern Homo sapiens sapiens fossils.\n\nPiltdown man was never accepted as valid by most paleontologists, even at the time.  It was popular with a few British archaeologists, because it was found in England, but it was shown to be a hoax consisting of an orang-utan jaw and a human skull inexpertly modified with a file by paleontologists (the very people whom creationists incorrectly try to blaim for the hoax).\n\nNebraska man was also shown to be a pig's tooth by experienced anatomists and paleontologists, rather than the untrained reporters and doctors who forwarded the claim.\n\nOta Benga was a sad case of racism expounded by an explorer a circus promoter and the insanely racist director of the Bronx zoo.  It had nothing to do with actual evolutionary theory, any more than the Branch Davidians in Waco had anything to do with the bible and Christianity.\n\nNone of these cases disproves any of the scientific tenets or proof of evolutionary theory.
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There is some debate on this, but from my Archaeology class, I learned that the first real human (homo sapien) found is approximately 160,000-120,000 years old.  This skeleton was found at Klasies River Mouth, South Africa.  \n\nI hope this helps!
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Just because man evolved from apes does not mean that the apes have been wiped out or replaced in that process.But what actually happened is that around 2-3 million years ago a group of apes started moving from their habitat in the African heartland toward the drier northern regions.As a result of changing climate and ecology They had to make certain adaptations in order to survive and thus these apes started evolving into humans wheres the groups which stayed back carried on with their existing traits because those characteristics were suitable for their habitats.So you have to understand that evolution takes place because there arises a need to change which can be attributed to change in ecology,climate,population etc...And it is only this group which is subjected to change conditions and it is only this group that actually evolves.
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man and monkey evolved from a common ancestor
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"The Tertiary covers roughly the time span between the demise of the dinosaurs and beginning of the most recent ice age. At the beginning of the period mammal replaced reptiles as the dominant animals. Each epoch of the Tertiary was marked by striking developments in mammalian life. The earliest recognizable hominoid relatives of humans, Proconsul and Australopithecus, appeared. Modern types of birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates either were already numerous at the beginning of the period or appeared early in its history. Modern families of flowering plants evolved. Marine invertebrates and non-mammal marine vertebrates experienced only modest evolution."
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Adam was the 1st man.\nEve was the 1st woman.\nJinns and dinosaurs were the 1st creatures.
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The egg from a Dinosaur\n50.000.000.000 years b.c
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yesterday it was right around 1 am.\n\nbecause it was:\n01:02:03 04/05/06\n\nWon't happen again for another 1000 years.
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About 13.7 billion years ago.
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Gala, you are spouting the common creationist misconception that humans evolved from apes. This is not true at all. Rather, humans share a common ancestor with apes. Also, there have been findings of humans much older than 6000 years old.
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When the Sun was born. ;)  4.6 billion years ago.