http://rumba.ics.uci.edu:8080/faqs/fossil-hominids.html
If you prefer, I can email you a copy. It's about 90K long.
This gives a summary of the known species, major specimens, and what we
think we know about them. It goes on to discuss and refute a lot of
young-earth creationist claims about the human fossil record.
To answer a few questions people have been asking:
Homo sapiens sapiens has been around for about 120,000 years. Older
Homo sapiens fossils, often called archaic, go back a few hundred
thousand years.
The oldest fossils of genus Homo go back nearly 2.5 million years,
although the evidence is spotty, and are probably Homo habilis. This
coincides with the earliest evidence of stone tools.
Homo erectus first appears nearly 2 million years ago.
Australopithecus afarensis ("Lucy") existed between 3 and 4 My ago.
There is one older fossil, the Kanapoi humeral fragment, thought to be
about 4.5 million years old, which is very human-like, but it is
premature to say it's human because we don't know enough to say that it
couldn't have belonged to something else.
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