4.54 billion years agoNow
2.8 million years agoapproximate date
The genus Homo
The first members of our own genus appear in Africa, soon making stone tools.
The genus Homo appears in the fossil record of Africa, with a larger brain and a growing reliance on tools that followed soon after. Several human species would live, and often overlap, across the following millions of years.
- Period
- Neogene
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