2.8 million years ago · approximate 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
- Earth's history already passed
- 99.9383 percent
- 4.54 kilometres
- 2.8 metres from the end
- One day
- 23:59:06
- One year
- December 31, 18:35
Source: Smithsonian Human Origins