Evolution timeline

By GUTI GUTIERREZ
  • 3000 BCE

    Australophitecus

    Australophitecus
    ( 3.900.000 - 2.000.000) Species of this genus have lived in Africa for just over 3.9 million years until about 2 million years ago. The greatest novelty contributed by australopithecus is that they moved in a bipedal manner. The brain of most species of Australopithecus was around 35% (500cc) of the size of the brain of modern man. They were mostly small and thin, with a size of 1.20 to 1.40 meters tall.
  • 2400 BCE

    Homo Abilis

    Homo Abilis
    ( 2.400,000 - ???) Is an extinct hominid that lived in Africa 2.4 million years ago. His name means "skillful man" and refers to the finding of lithic instruments probably made by him. A significant increase in brain size is observed in them with respect to Australopithecus, which has been calculated between 650 cm³ and 800 cm³.
  • 1900 BCE

    Homo Ergaster

    Homo Ergaster
    ( 1.900.000 - 1.400.000) Homo ergaster is an extinct hominid, typical of Africa. It is estimated that it lived between 1.9 and 1.4 million years ago. Homo ergaster is very different from the previous hominids and shows important anatomical changes: the size and proportion of the body is similar to ours and the brain suffers a significant increase, hovering around 850 cm³. It is believed that Homo ergaster could be the first hominid with capacity for articulated language.
  • 1000 BCE

    Homo Erectus

    Homo Erectus
    (2.000.000-70.000) Homo erectus is an extinct hominid, which lived between 2 million years and 70,000 years before the present. The classic Homo erectus inhabited in East Asia (China, Indonesia). The first remains that were found of Homo Erectus shows a cranial capacity of 850 cm3, while those that were found later reach 1100 cm3. It produced lithic industry and probably dominated the fire.
  • 900 BCE

    Homo Antecessor

    Homo Antecessor
    (900.000-40.000) Homo antecessor is an extinct Homo kind, considered the oldest hominid species in Europe. It lived about 900,000 years ago. They were tall, strong individuals with a face with archaic features and a brain smaller than that of the current human being.
  • 500 BCE

    Homo Sapiens

    Homo Sapiens
    (50.000-Now) Human beings possess mental abilities that allow them to invent, learn and use complex linguistic structures, logic, mathematics, writing, music, science and technology. Humans are social animals, capable of conceiving, transmitting and learning totally abstract concepts.