Simplified schema: branches represent probable ancestral relationships according to current palaeontology. Click an illustrated node to read our scientific dossier. |
Ma = million years ka = thousand years
Our dossiers on human evolution
Origins (-7 to -2 Ma)
First Hominins: from Toumai to Ardipithecus, 7 Million Years of Evolution
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Australopithecus and Paranthropines: Lucy, the Taung Child, and the Robust Ones
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First Homo (-2 to -0.5 Ma)
Homo habilis: The Handy Man of Olduvai and the Oldowan Industry
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Homo erectus: The First World Conqueror, from Africa to Java
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Archaic Homo and divergences
Homo heidelbergensis: the common ancestor of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens
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850,000 years ago, Homo antecessor was eating even children
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Homo floresiensis: the Hobbit of Flores, the Smallest Known Human
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