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Human evolution. Artwork of eight different species from the human evolutionary tree, all now extinct except modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens, lower right). The others are: Paranthropus (upper left, around 2.7 million years ago); Australopithecus afarensis (upper centre, 3.9 to 2.9 million years ago); Homo habilis (upper right, 2.3 to 1.4 million years ago); Homo erectus (centre left, 1.9 million to 150,000 years ago); Homo heidelbergensis (centre, 600,000 to 200,000 years ago); Homo georgicus (centre right, around 1.8 million years ago); and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis (lower left, around 600,000 to 45,000 years ago). Modern humans evolved around 200,000 years ago.

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