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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.
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 ...
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.
This clickable timeline template, wikilinked to over 30 Wikipedia articles, translated into over 25 languages, edited by over 40 editors, transcluded to over 120 articles, was originally derived from {{Life timeline}} for inclusion in the article "Timeline of human evolution".
Human history is the record of humankind from prehistory to the present. Modern humans evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago and initially lived as hunter-gatherers.They migrated out of Africa during the Last Ice Age and had spread across Earth's continental land except Antarctica by the end of the Ice Age 12,000 years ago.
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.
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