• Question: who was the first person on earth and when will the world end

    Asked by emal to Olivia, Joe, James on 18 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: James Pope

      James Pope answered on 18 Mar 2015:


      Hi Emal,

      The world will end in about 5 billion years when the sun expands to scorch our surface before shrinking into a small dwarf star, which won’t produce enough heat and the Earth will freeze.

      We don’t know who the first human was, but the oldest homo sapien (human) fossils are called Omo, after the region in Ethiopia they were found, aged about 195,000 years old.

    • Photo: Joe Spencer

      Joe Spencer answered on 18 Mar 2015:


      I can’t add any more to that than james said

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