At 12:10 AM 5/6/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>"Homo
>erectus, Homo ergaster and Homo sapiens were all around at the time,"
>
>Is it generally accepted that Homo sapiens was aroung 790,000 years ago?
>
>William


Here are a couple discussions on that:

http://anthro.palomar.edu/homo2/modern_humans.htm

http://www.modernhumanorigins.com/sapiens.html

As usual, no one agrees.

Tim