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The human evolution chart shown below provides basic information about each of the various known hominids. All the major players of human evolution are listed, together with the approximate dates when they existed and the locations where their fossils have been found. Together, their remains represent the physical evidence for evolution of humans, human ancestors, and their relations (click here to read a history of how the idea originally arose that humans evolved from apes). When available, small pictures of the various hominid skulls are shown (to see a larger view of a skull, click on it). The chart is broken into two separate sub-charts, one for the more ancient hominids, the other for the more recent ones. Click on the gray tabs (just below at left) to change between the two. Human Evolution Chart: ANCIENT HOMINIDS RECENT HOMINIDS SCIENTIFIC NAME AGE (mya) LOCALITY CRANIUM  Sahelanthropus tchadensis >>  ~7.0  Chad  Orrorin tugenensis >>  ~6.0  Western Kenya No skull known  Ardipithecus kadabba >>  ~5.8 - 5.2  Afar Depression No skull known  Ardipithecus ramidus >>  ~4.4  Afar Depression  Australopithecus anamensis >>  ~4.2 - 3.9  Kenya No image available  Australopithecus afarensis >>  ~4.0 - 2.7  Afar Depression  Australopithecus bahrelghazali >>    ~3.6  Chad No skull known  Kenyanthropus platyops >>  ~3.5 - 3.2  Kenya  Australopithecus africanus >>  ~3.0 - 2.0  South Africa  Paranthropus aethiopicus >>  ~2.7 - 2.4  Ethiopia, Kenya  Paranthropus boisei >>  ~2.6 - 1.1  Tanzania  Australopithecus garhi >>  ~2.5  Afar Depression No intact skull known  Homo habilis >>  ~2.5 - 1.44  Africa  Paranthropus robustus >>  ~2.3 - 1.2  South Africa

Trending on Macroevolution.net: Paleontologist Biographies: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829). Early evolutionary theorist. Long before Darwin, Lamarck proposed that human beings had evolved from apes. Read more→ Georges Cuvier (1769-1832). French naturalist and zoologist. Founder of the fields of vertebrate paleontology and comparative anatomy. One of the most prolific authors of scientific literature in the history of biology. Read more >> William Smith (1769-1839). Established from geological evidence, independently of Cuvier, the fact that evolution has occurred over time. Read more >> Mary Anning (1799-1847). British paleontologist. Often described as the greatest fossil hunter ever known. Read more >> Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873). British paleontologist. Namer of the Devonian and Cambrian periods. One of the foremost scientists of his era. Read more >> Louis Agassiz (1807-1873). Swiss-born American zoologist, geologist, and paleontologist, with a special expertise in ichthyology. Founder and director of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, one of the most famous scientists of his day. Read more >> Raymond Dart (1893-1988). Pioneering paleoanthropologist. Discoverer of the Taung Child, he was the first scientist to provide hard evidence that humans first evolved in Africa. Read more >> Louis and Mary Leakey The paleoanthropologist team that convinced the world that humans first evolved in Africa. Read more >>

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