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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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| 1858 |
| | Charles Darwin is alarmed to receive in his morning post a paper by Alfred Russell Wallace, outlining very much his own theory of evolution | |
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| 1859 |
| | Charles Darwin puts forward the theory of evolution in On the Origin of Species, the result of 20 years' research | |
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| 1919 |
| | H.L. Mencken's The American Language traces the gradual evolution of American from English | |
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| 1925 |
| | Biology teacher John Scopes is prosecuted for breaking state law by teaching evolution to his class of children in Dayton, Tennessee | |
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| 1931 |
| | On his first expedition to the Olduvai Gorge, Louis Leakey finds the oldest object now in the British Museum - the chopping tool from about 1.8 million years ago | |
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