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Feb 2, 2021 · The long evolutionary journey that created modern humans began with a single step—or more accurately—with the ability to walk on two legs. One of our earliest-known ancestors, Sahelanthropus ...
- Brian Handwerk
The earliest fossil evidence of early modern humans appears in Africa around 300,000 years ago, with the earliest genetic splits among modern people, according to some evidence, dating to around the same time.
The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the evolutionary lineage of the modern human species, Homo sapiens, throughout the history of life, beginning some 4 billion years ago down to recent evolution within H. sapiens during and since the Last Glacial Period.
Dec 11, 2023 · Currently, the answer is still up for debate: Researchers have so far unearthed 300,000-year-old fossils attributed to our species, while some scientists trace modern humans' origins to 1...
Sep 4, 2006 · 55 million years ago (MYA) First primitive primates evolve. 8 – 6 MYA. First gorillas evolve. Later, chimp and human lineages diverge. 5.8 MYA. Orrorin tugenensis, oldest human ancestor...
Modern humans originated in Africa within the past 200,000 years and evolved from the now extinct Homo erectus. Human evolution is an active area of research and current evidence supports an ‘out of Africa’ migration theory. Where did we come from? As modern humans, our species is Homo sapiens – meaning ‘wise
Sep 9, 2020 · Fossils and DNA suggest people looking like us, anatomically modern Homo sapiens, evolved around 300,000 years ago. Surprisingly, archaeology – tools, artefacts, cave art – suggest that complex...
