Human evolution. Artwork of eight different species from the human evolutionary tree,all now extinct except modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens,lower right). The others are: Paranthropus (upper left,around 2.7 million years ago); Australopithecus afarensis (upper centre,3.9 to 2.9 million years ago); Homo habilis (upper right,2.3 to 1.4 million years ago); Homo erectus (centre left,1.9 million to 150,000 years ago); Homo heidelbergensis (centre,600,000 to 200,000 years ago); Homo georgicus (centre right,around 1.8 million years ago); and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis (lower left,around 600,000 to 45,000 years ago). Modern humans evolved around 200,000 years ago |