6 How do atoms absorb & emit light? â¢ Key idea: Energy â¢ A photon carries energyâ¢ Electron in orbit has energy because it is moving and it is pulled by nucleus. â¢ When atom absorbs photon, energy of photon promotes electron to higher energy.
Until now, researchers believed that homo sapiens, the direct descendants of modern man, evolved in Africa about 200,000 years ago and gradually migrated north, through the Middle East, to Europe and Asia.
So what i think you're asking is when did modern humans evolve--that's about 200,000 years ago, but there were a lot of things similar to us before that.