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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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| c. 120,000 to 35,000 years ago |
| | The Middle Palaeolithic era covers the period when Neanderthals and modern humans coexist in Europe and Asia | |
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| c. 50,000 to 30,000 years ago |
| | Neanderthals decline in numbers, first in Asia and then in Europe | |
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| c. 35,000 years ago |
| | The Neanderthals vanish quite suddenly from the fossil record, leaving modern humans as the only surviving members of our species | |
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