Who were the first humans?

A range of views from WikiAnswers contributors

• Judaism and Christianity teach that the first humans were Adam and Eve (Hebrew: Chava). Muslims refer to them as Adam and Hawaa. Many religions have stories that tell us who the first people in this world were and these usually have a time frame of a few thousand years ago.

• Archaeologists tell us that people have lived on earth for millions of years. Our own species is called Homo sapiens, but we were preceded by other species such as Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and the Australopithecus genus. Archaeology defines "human" as members of the genus Homo. Currently the earliest known member of this genus is Homo habilis which is thought to have existed from 2 million years ago.