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The mystery trail of 5.7M year old fossilised footprints could shake up human evolution timeline

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Channel: Creative-Tube · 2017 · Science & Technology

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COMPLEX EVOLUTION OF MAN
55 million years ago - First primitive primates evolve
15 million years ago - Hominidae (great apes) evolve from the ancestors of the gibbon
8 million years ago - First gorillas evolve. Later, chimp and human lineages diverge
5.5 million years ago - Ardipithecus, early 'proto-human' shares traits with chimps and gorillas
4 million years ago - Ape like early humans, the Australopithecines appeared. They had brains no larger than a chimpanzee's but other more human like features 
3.9-2.9 million years ago - Australoipithecus afarensis lived in Africa.  
2.7 million years ago - Paranthropus, lived in woods and had massive jaws for chewing  
2.3 million years ago - Homo habalis first thought to have appeared in Africa
1.85 million years ago - First 'modern' hand emerges 
1.8 million years ago - Homo ergaster begins to appear in fossil record
1.6 million years ago - Hand axes become the first major technological innovation
800,000 years ago - Early humans control fire and create hearths. Brain size increases rapidly
400,000 years ago - Neanderthals first begin to appear and spread across Europe and Asia
200,000 years ago - Homo sapiens - modern humans - appear in Africa 
40,0000 years ago - Modern humans reach Europe 


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4844832/Fossil-footprints-shake-human-evolution-timeline.html#ixzz4rcye5VNY

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