Evolution of the human being

Australipithecus

4400 BCE

Its name means "southern African monkey". The first fossil remains, the skull of a child known as the Taung child, were discovered in 1924 by Raymond Dart in Taung, South Africa, but was not taken into account until 30 years later.

Homo Habilis

1900 BCE

It lived in the African region between 1.9 and 1.6 million years ago, in the Preistocene period. The discovery of their fossils took place between 1962 and 1964, when Louis and Mary Leakey found their remains in Tanzania.

Homo Erectus

70 BCE

Homo erectus is an extinct hominin, who lived between 2 million years and 70,000 years before the present—if his extinction is linked to the toba catastrophe theory. The classic Homo erectus inhabited East Asia.

Neanthertal

28 BCE

Neandertal Man is an extinct species of the genus Homo that inhabited Europe, the Middle East, the Middle East and Central Asia, approximately 230,000 to 40,000 years ago, during the end of the Middle Pleistocene and almost the entire upper

Homo Sapiens

12 BCE

Homo sapiens is a species of primate order belonging to the hominin family. They are also known under the generic name of "men"