Gallery – Evolution – Evolution

Modern humans are grouped together with all earlier species of the zoological family Hominidae as hominids. We are the most recent branch of a family tree that over millions of years has included dozens of hominid species. But we – Homo sapiens – are the only hominids still living today. We have been around for only about 200,000 years. Our family tree is relatively young. Hominids appeared only about 7-million years ago. By comparison, the last dinosaurs died out 65-million years ago. The Earth was formed about 4.6-billion years ago and the universe was born about 14-billion years ago.