300,000 years ago · approximate date
Homo sapiens
Our species evolves in Africa, near the very end of the story.
Homo sapiens evolved in Africa during a long stretch of repeated climate swings. Earth had already lived through more than 99.99 percent of its history before we arrived.
- Period
- Quaternary
- Earth's history already passed
- 99.9934 percent
- 4.54 kilometres
- 30 centimetres from the end
- One day
- 23:59:54
- One year
- December 31, 23:25
Source: Smithsonian Human Origins