Human History / Anthropology

We divided from fungi 650 million years ago
About 221 million and 210 million years ago
66 million years ago asteroid impact Yucatán Peninsula - Chicxulub crater
6-7 million years ago relationship with apes ended
2.8 million years ago genus of Homo emerged
2 million years ago fire discovered
- Fire started cooking; which turned food more nutritious; which helped develop our brains
300,000 years ago, species lived in small hunters gatherers society; and spoke to each other
Homo sapiens sapiens 200,000 years ago (6 species of Homo was around that time)
- Homo erectus survived for 2 million years
- Last of other species disappeared around 10,000 years ago
- Modern human have some neaderthal's DNA, so there was some mixing
70,000 years ago only humans got some abstract thinking capabilities to survive in today's generation
60,000 years ago first time humans moved out of Africa
50,000 years ago there was explosion in innovation; tools and weapons became more sophisticated and culture became more complex; communication improved and in turn cooperation improved in large groups
Humans started fishing somewhere between 40,000 and 10000 years BCE.
12,000 years ago agriculture started in multiple locations; because of this specialization started
500 years ago scientific revolution happened; industrial revolution

Human Generations

Generations	Born	Current Ages (as of 2024)
Gen Z \| GenZ	1997 - 2012	12 - 27
Millennials	1981 - 1996	28 - 43
Gen X	1965 - 1980	44 - 59
Boomers II (a/k/a Generation Jones)*	1955 - 1964	60 - 69
Boomers I*	1946 - 1954	70 - 78
Post War	1928 - 1945	79 - 96
WWII	1922 - 1927	97 - 102