Themes > Science > Life Sciences > Physical Anthropology > Pre-Historic Man > Hominid Species Timeline

The chronological chart below shows the main Hominid species (apes in blue, human species in red) and their approximate relationships in time, based on currently available evidence. Below the chart are the species names in a list. Click on a species to find more information about each one.


..Australopithecus ramidus - 5 to 4 million years BCE
..Australopithecus afarensis - 4 to 2.7 million years BCE
..Australopithecus africanus - 3.0 to 2.0 million years BCE
..Australopithecus robustus - 2.2 to 1.0 million years BCE
..Homo habilis - 2.2 to 1.6 million years BCE
..Homo erectus - 2 to 0.4 million years BCE
..Homo sapiens - 400,000 to 200,000 years BCE
..Homo sapiens neandertalensis - 200,000 to 30,000 years BCE
..Homo sapiens sapiens - 130,000 years BCE to present


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