Stages in human evolution, illustration
Stages in human evolution, illustration. From left to right are: Australopithecus afarensis, which lived in East Africa and million years ago; Australopithecus africanus, which lived in southern Africa to million years ago; Paranthropus robustus, which lived in southern Africa around to 1 million years ago; Paranthropus boisei, which lived in East Africa around to million years ago; Homo habilis, which lived in East Africa around 2 to million years ago; Homo erectus, which lived in Africa and Asia between million and 143,000 years ago; archaic Homo sapiens; Homo neanderthalensis, which lived in Europe and western Asia between 230,000 and 29,000 years ago; finally a Homo sapiens, or modern human.
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