• Question: do you know anything about the life span of Homo sapiens?

    Asked by mattsid1 to Betul, Bridget, Ceri-Wyn, Laurel, Maria on 22 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Bridget Waller

      Bridget Waller answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Do you mean within a person’s lifetime or in terms of evolution?

    • Photo: Ceri-Wyn Thomas

      Ceri-Wyn Thomas answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Do you mean how long will we survive as a species? That’s hard to predict although most mammal species last for about 1 million years on average. Homo sapiens have only been around for approximately 100,000 years so we may have a long time left yet.

    • Photo: Maria Pawlowska

      Maria Pawlowska answered on 22 Jun 2010:

      The species? Well an average big mammal species has a “life-span” of about a million years. An individual human can hope to live up to 80-90 years in our part of the world, and that’s on average so we’re likely to hit 100!

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