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  The first humans emerged in Africa around two million years ago, long before the modern humans known as   Homo sapiens   appeared on the same continent. There’s a lot anthropologists still don’t know about how different groups of humans interacted and mated with each other over this long stretch of prehistory. Thanks to new archaeological and genealogical research, they’re starting to fill in some of the blanks. The First Humans Homo habilis individuals chip away at rocks, sharpening them for cutting up game or scraping hides while a woman, with her child, gathers wild berries to eat and branches to make shelters. Brown Bear/Windmil Books/Universal Images Group/Getty Images First things first: A “human” is anyone who belongs to the genus  Homo  (Latin for “man”). Scientists still don’t know exactly when or how the first humans evolved, but they’ve identified a few of the oldest ones. One of the earliest known humans is  Homo habilis , or “handy man,” who lived about 2.4 million to 1.