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
First hominins (-7 to -4 Ma)
Australopiths and Paranthropus (-4 to -1.5 Ma)
First Homo (-2 to -1 Ma)
Archaic and enigmatic Homo
850,000 years ago, Homo antecessor was eating even children
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Homo naledi: what if every skeleton in the cave is female?
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