years ago | time | what happened |
---|---|---|
43,200,000 | 00:00 | Mesohippus... ancestor of the modern horse |
41,400,000 | 01:00 | |
39,600,000 | 02:00 | |
37,800,000 | 03:00 | |
36,000,000 | 04:00 | |
34,200,000 | 05:00 | Our ancestors leave the trees and assume a semi-upright posture |
32,400,000 | 06:00 | |
30,600,000 | 07:00 | |
28,800,000 | 08:00 | |
27,000,000 | 09:00 | Miocene Epoch begins. |
25,200,000 | 10:00 | Mastodons migrate from Africa to Europe. |
23,400,000 | 11:00 | |
21,600,000 | 12:00 | Driopithecus (large forest-dwelling primates) |
19,800,000 | 13:00 | |
18,000,000 | 14:00 | Climate begins to cool... grasslands appear where before there was forest. |
16,200,000 | 15:00 | Ramapithecus (probable ancestor of modern apes and humans) |
14,400,000 | 16:00 | |
12,600,000 | 17:00 | |
10,800,000 | 18:00 | |
9,000,000 | 19:00 | |
7,200,000 | 20:00 | first hominids; Pliocene Epoch begins |
5,400,000 | 21:00 | Australopithecus robustus; A. anamensis; A. afarensis (upright walking) |
3,600,000 | 22:00 | Pleistocene Epoch; modern bears, horses, elephants Homo erectus; H. habilis, first stone tools |
1,800,000
today |
23:00
24:00 |
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