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  Prehistory timeline
     
c. 6 million years ago
 
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Various species of ape develop the habit of walking upright on two feet      
c. 4.5 million years ago
 
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Certain primates, in eastern and southern Africa, are by now sufficiently like humans to be classed as hominids      
c. 3.2 million years ago
 
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A female of the species Australopithecus Afarensis (nicknamed Lucy when her skeleton is found), lives in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia within 50 miles of where her predecessor Ardi was unearthed      
c. 2.2 million years ago
 
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Creatures of the genus Homo, classified as early modern humans, are living in east Africa      
c. 1.8 million years ago
 
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A species of human in east Africa, Homo erectus, is probably the first identifiable ancestor of modern man      
A skull of Homo Erectus
(National Museum of Kenya)

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