Har homo sapiens varit i träd Homo sapiens, the first modern humans, evolved from their early hominid predecessors between , and , years ago. They developed a capacity for language about 50, years ago. The first modern humans began moving outside of Africa starting about 70,, years ago. Humans are the only known species to have successfully. 1 människans utveckling tidslinje 2 Human taxonomy is the classification of the human species (systematic name Homo sapiens, Latin: "wise man") within zoological taxonomy. The systematic genus, Homo, is designed to include both anatomically modern humans and extinct varieties of archaic humans. Current humans have been designated as subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens, differentiated. 3 människans ursprung 4 The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the evolutionary lineage of the modern human species, Homo sapiens, throughout the history of life, beginning some 4 billion years ago down to recent evolution within H. sapiens during and since the Last Glacial Period. It includes brief explanations of the various taxonomic ranks in. 5 These five skulls, which range from an approximately million-year-old Australopithecus africanus on the left to an approximately 4,year-old Homo sapiens on the right, show changes in the. 6 The generic name "Homo" is a learned 18th-century derivation from Latin homō, which refers to humans of either sex. The word human can refer to all members of the Homo genus, although in common usage it generally just refers to Homo sapiens, the only extant species. The name "Homo sapiens" means 'wise man' or 'knowledgeable man'. 7 hur länge har homo sapiens funnits 8 Det är en egenskap som skiljer oss från våra närmast levande släktingar gorillor, schimpanser och orangutanger. 9 Dock är den förstnämnda teorin, att den moderna människan som art, Homo sapiens, först utvecklades i Afrika och sedan spred sig den uppfattning som har. 10 human evolution, the process by which human beings developed on Earth from now-extinct primates. Viewed zoologically, we humans are Homo sapiens, a culture-bearing upright-walking species that lives on the ground and very likely first evolved in Africa about , years ago. We are now the only living members of what many zoologists refer to as the human tribe, Hominini, but there is. 11