Emergence of Homo sapiens
~300,000 years ago · Event
Modern humans appear in Africa around 300,000 years ago.
On these timelines: Human Origins & the Ice Age, Master, Sub-Saharan Africa
More from Human Origins & the Ice Age
- Split between humans and chimpanzees (7000000 BCE)
- Extinction of the Neanderthals (40000 BCE)
- Pleistocene Ice Age (2580000 BCE)
- Homo floresiensis, the island 'hobbits' (100000 BCE)
- Last woolly mammoths die on Wrangel Island (2000 BCE)
Around 300000 BCE
- Denisovans inhabit Asia (300000 BCE)