7,000,000 years · one lineage
The Long Walk
From a forest ape that first stood upright to a species that mapped its own genome â scroll the deep-time timeline of human evolution, then follow the DNA trail of where we travelled.
The Timeline
Scroll through our ancestors and cousins
Each species below is a stop on the journey, arranged from the deepest past at the top to the present day at the bottom. Tap any card to open its full multi-section report â anatomy, brain, behaviour, key fossils and how it relates to us.
The journey continues
Where did Homo sapiens go next?
Once modern humans walked out of Africa, the story shifts from fossils to genomes. Using 19,029 ancient DNA samples, we reconstruct the great migrations that peopled the planet â clustered, mapped, and explained.
Explore ancient human migrations â