A group of Australopithecus
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The Australopithecus, of which drift, it, the human line seems, appear approximately 4 million years ago. One distinguishes several species from them: Australopithecus anamensis, is oldest (3.9 million years); Australopithecus afarensis, whose most famous representative is Lucy, goes back to more than 3 million years. The human line itself appears approximately 2.6 million years ago with the Homo kind in the east of Africa.
It is with Gay the habilis that one sees appearing the first structures built on the ground, which seem to correspond to masks of hunting. The Homo erectus as for him, is the first in the history of humanity to knowing to control and reproduce fire. It uses moreover arranged rollers, as well as tools specialized like the double-side one or the hatchet. Thereafter, the man disperses in Europe and Asia. The Homo sapiens did not appear that approximately 300 ' 000 years ago, in Africa.