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East Africa timeline
c. 15 million years ago
A primate of this period, at ease both in the trees and on the ground, is probably the common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees and humans
c. 6 million years ago
Various species of ape develop the habit of walking upright on two feet
c. 4.5 million years ago
Certain primates, in eastern and southern Africa, are by now sufficiently like humans to be classed as hominids
c. 3.2 million years ago
A female of the species
Australopithecus Afarensis
(nicknamed Lucy when her skeleton is found), lives in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia within 50 miles of where her predecessor Ardi was unearthed
c. 2.2 million years ago
Creatures of the genus
Homo
, classified as early modern humans, are living in east Africa
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