• Question: How long roughly do you think evolution took place (from chimp to human)

    Asked by anon-195241 to James, Anthony on 5 Jan 2019.
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      James Cole answered on 5 Jan 2019:


      We currently think that it took around 7 million years for us to evolve from our last common ancestor that we shared with chimpanzees. Our species (Homo sapiens) evolved in Africa around 300 thousand years ago.

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