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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 . It includes brief explanations of the various taxonomic ranks in ...
The chimpanzee–human last common ancestor ( CHLCA) is the last common ancestor shared by the extant Homo (human) and Pan ( chimpanzee and bonobo) genera of Hominini. Estimates of the divergence date vary widely from thirteen to five million years ago. In human genetic studies, the CHLCA is useful as an anchor point for calculating single ...
Cro-Magnons or European early modern humans ( EEMH) were the first early modern humans ( Homo sapiens) to settle in Europe, migrating from western Asia, continuously occupying the continent possibly from as early as 56,800 years ago. They interacted and interbred with the indigenous Neanderthals ( H. neanderthalensis) of Europe and Western Asia ...
List of first human settlements. This is a list of dates associated with the prehistoric peopling of the world (first known presence of Homo sapiens ). The list is divided into four categories, Middle Paleolithic (before 50,000 years ago), Upper Paleolithic (50,000 to 12,500 years ago), Holocene (12,500 to 500 years ago) and Modern ( Age of ...
The multiregional hypothesis, multiregional evolution ( MRE ), or polycentric hypothesis, is a scientific model that provides an alternative explanation to the more widely accepted "out of Africa" model of monogenesis for the pattern of human evolution . Multiregional evolution holds that the human species first arose around two million years ...
The hominoids are descendants of a common ancestor. Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family that includes all the great apes. [ 1] This process involved the gradual development of traits such as human bipedalism, dexterity ...
Homininae (the hominines ), is a subfamily of the family Hominidae (hominids). (The Homininae— / hɒmɪˈnaɪniː / —encompass humans, and are also called " African hominids " or " African apes ".) [ 1][ 2] This subfamily includes two tribes, Hominini and Gorillini, both having ex tant (=living) species as well as ex tinct species.
Homo habilis ( lit. 'handy man') is an extinct species of archaic human from the Early Pleistocene of East and South Africa about 2.3 million years ago to 1.65 million years ago ( mya ). Upon species description in 1964, H. habilis was highly contested, with many researchers recommending it be synonymised with Australopithecus africanus, the ...