• Question: Who was the first person on earth?

    Asked by anon-192243 to Jessica on 14 Nov 2018.
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      Jessica Leung answered on 14 Nov 2018:

      This is such a great question, but unfortunately I don’t have an exact answer for this as I’m not so sure myself! From what my understanding is using science, it was believed that we were all evolved from a common animal, the chimpanzees, and that’s how we became what we are today – humans.

      So, I had to do a bit of research from Google (this is not classed as cheating as I told you that I’d looked it up rather than saying it was from my knowledge, lol!) and basically found out that: the first person found on earth was from Africa around 200,000 years ago! A lot of scientists now are still doing research and investigation on this as it’s not as easy as it sounds! They also said that rather than the ‘first person on earth’, it’s more likely that they first came about as a group of people and gradually spread across the world.

      I’ve copied the link below if you want to check it out and read it yourself, it’s actually really interesting!

      Link: http://theconversation.com/curious-kids-where-did-the-first-person-come-from-85891

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