7 million years ago · approximate date
The first hominins
Our earliest ancestors diverge from other apes.
Around this time the human branch split from the ancestors of chimpanzees. The earliest hominins were apelike, but had begun to stand and walk differently. The split is dated from genetics and fossils, and stays uncertain by a million years or more.
- Period
- Neogene
- Earth's history already passed
- 99.8458 percent
- 4.54 kilometres
- 7 metres from the end
- One day
- 23:57:46
- One year
- December 31, 10:29
Source: Smithsonian Human Origins