List of human evolution fossils
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Paleontology The following tables give an overview of notable finds of hominin fossils and remains relating to human evolution, beginning with the formation of the tribe Hominini (the divergence of the human and chimpanzee lineages) in the late Miocene, roughly 7 to 8 million years ago.
As there are thousands of fossils, mostly fragmentary, often consisting of single bones or isolated teeth with complete skulls and skeletons rare, this overview is not complete, but shows some of the most important findings. The fossils are arranged by approximate age as determined by radiometric dating and/or incremental dating and the species name represents current consensus; if there is no clear scientific consensus the other possible classifications are indicated.
The early fossils shown are not considered ancestors to Homo sapiens but are closely related to ancestors and are therefore important to the study of the lineage. After 1.5 million years ago (extinction of Paranthropus), all fossils shown are human (genus Homo). After 11,500 years ago (11.5 ka, beginning of the Holocene), all fossils shown are Homo sapiens (anatomically modern humans), illustrating recent divergence in the formation of modern human sub-populations.
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Script error: No such module "labelled list hatnote". The chimpanzee–human divergence likely took place around 10 to 7 million years ago.[1] The list of fossils begins with Graecopithecus, dated some 7.2 million years ago, which may or may not still be ancestral to both the human and the chimpanzee lineage. For the earlier history of the human lineage, see Timeline of human evolution#Hominidae, Hominidae#Phylogeny.
| Image | Name | Age (Ma) | Species | Year discovered |
Country | Discovered by | Now located at |
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| El Graeco | 7.20[2] | Graecopithecus | 1944, 2017 | Greece, Bulgaria Site:Pyrgos Vassilissis, Azmaka |
Böhme (Tübingen), Spassov (BAS) | Met, Athens; Tübingen, Germany | |
| File:Sahelanthropus tchadensis - TM 266-01-060-1.jpg | TM 266 (Toumai) | 7.00–6.00[3] | Sahelanthropus tchadensis | 2001 | Chad Site:Djurab Desert |
Alain Beauvilain, Fanone Gongdibe, Mahamat Adoum and Ahounta Djimdoumalbaye | N'Djamena (Chad), BEAC |
| File:Orrorin tugenensis.jpg | BAR 1000'00 | 6.1–5.7[4] | Orrorin tugenensis | 2000 | Kenya Site:Lukeino |
Martin Pickford, Kiptalam Cheboi, Dominique Gommery, Pierre Mein, Brigitte Senut | |
| File:Trachilos Fußspuren 13.jpg | Trachilos footprints | 6.05[5] | Made by hominin or hominin-like primate | 2002 | Greece | Gerard D. Gierliński | |
| File:Ardipithecus kadabba fossils.jpg | ALA-VP 1/20[6] | 5.65±0.150 | Ardipithecus kadabba | 1997 | Ethiopia Site:Middle Awash |
Yohannes Haile-Selassie |
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Pleistocene
Lower Paleolithic: 2.58–0.3 million years old
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Abbreviations used in fossil catalog name
- ALTemplate:Spaced ndashAfar Locality, Ethiopia
- ARA-VPTemplate:Spaced ndashAramis Vertebrate Paleontology, Ethiopia
- BARTemplate:Spaced ndash(Lukeino, Tugen Hills) Baringo District, Kenya
- BOU-VPTemplate:Spaced ndashBouri Vertebrate Paleontology, Ethiopia
- DTemplate:Spaced ndashDmanisi, Georgia
- ERTemplate:Spaced ndashEast (Lake) Rudolf, Kenya
- KGATemplate:Spaced ndashKonso-Gardula, Ethiopia
- KNMTemplate:Spaced ndashKenya National Museum
- KPTemplate:Spaced ndashKanapoi, Kenya
- LBTemplate:Spaced ndashLiang Bua, Indonesia
- LHTemplate:Spaced ndashLaetoli Hominid 4, Tanzania
- MHTemplate:Spaced ndashMalapa Hominin, South Africa
- NGTemplate:Spaced ndashNgandong, Indonesia
- OHTemplate:Spaced ndashOlduvai Hominid, Tanzania
- SKTemplate:Spaced ndashSwartkrans, South Africa
- Sts, StwTemplate:Spaced ndashSterkfontein, South Africa
- TMTemplate:Spaced ndashTransvaal Museum, South Africa
- TMTemplate:Spaced ndashToros-Menalla, Chad
- WTTemplate:Spaced ndashWest (Lake) Turkana, Kenya
See also
- Human timeline
- List of first human settlements
- List of fossil primates
- List of fossil sites
- List of mummies
- List of transitional fossils
- Timeline of human evolution
- Timeline of prehistory
Further reading
- Gibbons, Ann. The First Human: The Race to Discover our Earliest Ancestor. Anchor Books (2007). Template:ISBN
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- Johanson, Donald & Wong, Kate. Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. Three Rivers Press (2009). Template:ISBN
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- Leakey, Richard & Lewin, Roger. Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes us Human. Little, Brown and Company (1992). Template:ISBN
- Lewin, Roger. Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins. Penguin Books (1987). Template:ISBN
- Morwood, Mike & van Oosterzee, Penny. A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the 'Hobbits' of Flores, Indonesia. Smithsonian Books (2007). Template:ISBN
- Oppenheimer, Stephen. Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World. Constable (2003). Template:ISBN
- Roberts, Alice. The Incredible Human Journey: The Story of how we Colonised the Planet. Bloomsbury (2009). Template:ISBN
- Shreeve, James. The Neanderthal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Modern Human Origins. Viking (1996). Template:ISBN
- Stringer, Chris. The Origin of Our Species. Allen Lane (2011). Template:ISBN
- Stringer, Chris & Andrews, Peter. The Complete World of Human Evolution. Thames & Hudson (2005). Template:ISBN
- Stringer, Chris & McKie, Robin. African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity. Jonathan Cape (1996). Template:ISBN
- van Oosterzee, Penny. The Story of Peking Man. Allen & Unwin (1999). Template:ISBN
- Walker, Allan & Shipman, Pat. The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins. Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1996). Template:ISBN
- Wade, Nicholas. Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of our Ancestors. Penguin Press (2006). Template:ISBN
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References
Bibliography
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External links
- Interactive map of primate fossil finds around the world Template:Webarchive
- Informative lecture on Australopithecines
- The Age of Homo sapiens – Interactive Map of Human Evolution Fossils
- Human Timeline (Interactive) – Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History (August 2016).
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