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| c. 1.85 million years ago |
| | A hominid, nicknamed Twiggy and thought to be in the species Homo habilis, is living in East Africa | |
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| c. 1.8 million years ago |
| | A species of human in east Africa, Homo erectus, is probably the first identifiable ancestor of modern man | |
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| c. 1.7 million years ago |
| | Homo erectus, moves out of Africa and begins to spread through Europe and Asia | |
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| 1.6 million years ago |
| | A Homo erectus boy, aged about ten, lives near Lake Turkana in Kenya and dies at Nariokotome | |
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| c. 1.6 million years ago |
| | Humans in coastal areas of South Africa extend their diet to include shellfish and other marine sources of food | |
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| c. 1 million years ago |
| | It is impossible to know when and how human beings first speak, but elementary speech may well go back a million years | |
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| c. 800,000 years ago |
| | The last common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals evolves in Africa (possibly the species known as Homo Rhodesiensis) | |
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| c. 230,000 years ago |
| | Humans evolve who can be classified as Homo sapiens - among them Neanderthal Man | |
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| c. 150,000 years ago |
| | A possible second migration from Africa begins, involving at some time the ancestors of modern man, Homo sapiens sapiens | |
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| c. 130,000 years ago |
| | Neanderthal man is by now well established in Europe and Asia, probably having evolved after his ancestors left Africa | |
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