Graphical timeline of human evolution
This timeline of human evolution shows the sequence of events and species from the separation of our evolutionary branch from that of the other living great apes. Approximate ages are expressed in millions of years ago (Ma).
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bar:Timelines align:center shift:none from:5332000 till:end color:Miocene text:Miocene from:1806000 till:5332000 color:Pliocene text:Pliocene from:11500 till:1806000 color:Pleistocene text:Pleistocene from:0 till:11500 color:Holocene text:Holocene
bar:Events color:events align:left shift:(15,0) at:6000000 text:6 Ma - Age of Orrorin tugenensis bones found in Kenya~(human ancestry undetermined) at:5000000 text:"5 Ma - Approximate split between humans and apes~using molecular clock" at:150000 shift:(15,3) text:"150 Ka - Mitochondrial Eve living in Africa" from:60000 till:90000 shift:(15,-3) text:"90-60 Ka - Y-chromosomal Adam living in Africa"
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bar:bar1 from:6000000 till:7000000 color:period1 shift:(15,50) text:Sahelanthropus tchadensis (7-6 Ma)~(human ancestry undetermined)~Age based on fossil evidence found in Chad
bar:bar1 from:5200000 till:5800000 text:Ar. kadabba (5.8-5.2 Ma) bar:bar3 from:4400000 till:5000000 text:Ar. ramidus (5.0?-4.4 Ma)
bar:bar4 from:3900000 till:4200000 text:A. anamensis (4.2-3.9 Ma) bar:bar5 from:3000000 till:3900000 text:A. afarensis (3.9-3.0 Ma) bar:bar7 from:2000000 till:3000000 shift:(15,75) text:A. africanus (3-2 Ma) bar:bar8 at:2500000 text:A. garhi (2.5 Ma)
bar:bar9 from:1500000 till:2400000 text:H. habilis (2.4-1.5 Ma) bar:bar10 at:1800000 text:H. georgicus (1.8 Ma) bar:bar12 from:300000 till:1800000 text:H. erectus (1.8-0.3 Ma) bar:bar13 from:0 till:500000 shift:(15,15) text:H. sapiens~(from 0.5 Ma)
bar:bar2 from:2300000 till:2600000 shift:(15,-5) text:P. aethiopicus (2.6-2.3 Ma) bar:bar1 from:1500000 till:2000000 shift:(15,-5) text:P. robustus (2.0-1.5 Ma) bar:bar3 from:1100000 till:2100000 text:P. boisei (2.1-1.1 Ma)
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bar:bar2 from:4400000 till:5800000 color:period1 at:5800000 text:Genus Ardipithecus (5.8-4.4 Ma)
bar:bar2 from:1100000 till:2600000 color:period1 at:2600000 text:Genus Paranthropus (2.6-1.1 Ma)
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bar:bar6 from:2000000 till:4200000 color:period2 at:4200000 shift:none text:Genus Australopithecus (4.2-2.0 Ma)
bar:bar11 from:0 till:2400000 color:period3 at:2400000 shift:(40,-10) text:Genus Homo~(from 2.4 Ma)
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See also
- Human evolution
- Timeline of evolution
- Graphical timeline of our universe, spanning the life of the universe