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Until recently, H. sapiens was thought to have evolved approximately 200,000 years ago in East Africa. This estimate was shaped by the discovery in 1967 of the oldest remains attributed to H. sapiens, at a site in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley.
550,000 to 750,000 Years Ago: The Beginning of the Homo sapiens Lineage. A facial reconstruction of Homo heidelbergensis, a popular candidate as a common ancestor for modern humans,...
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.
However, the age of the oldest remains of the genus Homo is younger than this technological milestone, dating to some 2.8–2.75 million years ago in Ethiopia. The oldest known remains of Homo sapiens —a collection of skull fragments, a complete jawbone, and stone tools—date to about 315,000 years ago.
When Lived: About 300,000 years ago to present. Overview: The species that you and all other living human beings on this planet belong to is Homo sapiens. During a time of dramatic climate change 300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens evolved in Africa.
Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern human beings belong and the only member of the genus Homo that is not extinct. The name ‘Homo sapiens’ was applied in 1758 by the father of modern biological classification, Carolus Linnaeus.
Homo sapiens is the only extant species of its genus, Homo. While some (extinct) Homo species might have been ancestors of Homo sapiens, many, perhaps most, were likely "cousins", having speciated away from the ancestral hominin line.
250,000 years ago: Early humans began to communicate with symbols—with evidence of the oldest known “crayons” (faceted sticks and chunks of pigment). 200,000 years ago: Modern humans (Homo sapiens) evolved in Africa; they gathered and hunted food, like earlier human species.
Advances in the dating of fossils and artifacts help determine the age of those remains, which contributes to the big picture of when different milestones in becoming human evolved. Exciting scientific discoveries continually add to the broader and deeper public knowledge of human evolution.
New fossils push back dates. The oldest evidence of life is from 3.95 billion-year-old rocks. Humans evolved much later in Earth's history, possibly around 1 million to 700,000 years...