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Overview map of the peopling of the world by anatomically modern humans (numbers indicate dates in thousands of years ago [kya]). This is a list of dates associated with the prehistoric peopling of the world (first known presence of Homo sapiens).
H. erectus is the first known species to develop control of fire, by about 1.5 Ma. H. erectus later migrates throughout Eurasia, reaching Southeast Asia by 0.7 Ma. It is described in a number of subspecies. [38] Early humans were social and initially scavenged, before becoming active hunters.
194 kya – 177 kya: Modern human presence in West Asia (Misliya Cave in Israel). [12] [13] 170 kya: Humans are wearing clothing by this date. [14] 164 kya: Humans diet expands to include marine resources [15] 160 kya: Homo sapiens idaltu. [16] 150 kya: Peopling of Africa: Khoisanid separation, age of mtDNA haplogroup L0.
There is a possibility that this first wave of expansion may have reached China (or even North America [dubious – discuss] [46]) as early as 125,000 years ago, but would have died out without leaving a trace in the genome of contemporary humans. [22] Fuller projection map showing early human migrations according to mitochondrial population ...
The chimpanzee–human divergence likely took place around 10 to 7 million years ago. [1] The list of fossils begins with Graecopithecus, dated some 7.2 million years ago, which may or may not still be ancestral to both the human and the chimpanzee lineage.
How and when people first came to the Americas is a question archaeologists have long tried to answer. One of the most significant initial discoveries on that front was found in 1929 at a site ...
Imagine life with no humans. One group of researchers has done exactly that -- and they even made a map to show how the world might look sans homo sapiens. SEE ALSO: California drought may ...
At long irregular intervals, Earth's biosphere suffers a catastrophic die-off, a mass extinction, [9] often comprising an accumulation of smaller extinction events over a relatively brief period. [10] The first known mass extinction was the Great Oxidation Event 2.4 billion years ago, which killed most of the planet's obligate anaerobes.