It all started about 7 million years ago in Africa, when there was a separation of several lines in the evolution of monkeys, and some of these storylines gave rise to the bipedal apes such as Australopithecus, to which the famous Lucy belongs 5 species of these bipedal apes living in the African steppes are described.
Some of these species gave rise to the genus Homo.
Europe, 1 million years ago was inhabited by Homo antecessor, which gave rise to two branches, the Neardentalensis and Homo Sapiens. This occurred 660,000 years ago.
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