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)
First Hominins: from Toumai to Ardipithecus, 7 Million Years of Evolution
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Orrorin tugenensis: The Millennium Man and the Origins of Bipedalism
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Ardipithecus ramidus: Ardi, at thé Roots of Humanity
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Australopithecus anamensis: Lucy's Ancestor and the Oldest Confirmed Australopith
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Australopiths and Paranthropus (-4 to -1.5 Ma)
Kenyanthropus platyops: Thé Flat Face That Reshuffles thé Pliocène
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Australopithecus and Paranthropines: Lucy, thé Taung Child, and thé Robust Ones
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Australopithecus sediba: South Africa's Missing Link?
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Paranthropus: The Robust Australopiths and Their Evolutionary Dead End
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First Homo (-2 to -1 Ma)
Homo habilis: The Handy Man of Olduvai and the Oldowan Industry
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Homo ergaster: Africa's Ancestor of the Upright Man
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Homo georgicus: The First Human Outside Africa
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Homo erectus: The First World Conqueror, from Africa to Java
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Archaic and enigmatic Homo
Homo heidelbergensis: the common ancestor of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens
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850,000 years ago, Homo antecessor was eating even children
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Homo floresiensis: the Hobbit of Flores, the Smallest Known Human
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Homo luzonensis: The Surprising Human Species of the Philippines
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Homo naledi: The Star Man Rewriting Our Origins
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