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Timeline of human evolution7 Ma to today

Seven million years

A timeline of human evolution: when each species lived, from about 7 million years ago to today, on one shared scale. Dates are in millions of years ago (Ma) and rounded.

  • Earliest ancestors
  • Australopithecus
  • Kenyanthropus
  • Paranthropus
  • Homo
Sahelanthropus tchadensis 7 to 6
Ardipithecus ramidus 4.5 to 4.3
Australopithecus anamensis 4.2 to 3.8
Australopithecus afarensis 3.85 to 2.95
Kenyanthropus platyops 3.5 to 3.3
Australopithecus africanus 3.3 to 2.1
Paranthropus aethiopicus 2.7 to 2.3
Homo habilis 2.4 to 1.4
Paranthropus boisei 2.3 to 1.2
Paranthropus robustus 2 to 1.2
Homo erectus 1.9 to 0.11
Homo neanderthalensis 0.43 to 0.04
Homo sapiens 0.3 to today

Earliest ancestors

Australopithecus

Kenyanthropus

Paranthropus

Homo