Further information: Chimpanzee–human last common ancestor, Ardipithecus, Sahelanthropus, Homininae, and Hominini
The chimpanzee–human divergence likely took place during about 10 to 7 million years ago.The list of fossils begins with Graecopithecus, dated some 7.2 million years ago, which may or may not still be ancestral to both the human and the chimpanzee lineage. For the earlier history of the human lineage, see Timeline of human evolution#Hominidae, Hominidae#Phylogeny.
| Image | Name | Age (Ma) | Species | Year
discovered |
Country | Discovered by | Now located at |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| link=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Graecopithecus_tooth.png|alt=|left|frameless|102x102px | El Graeco | 7.20 | Graecopithecus | 1944, 2017 | Greece, Bulgaria
Site:Pyrgos Vassilissis, Azmaka |
Böhme (Tübingen), Spassov (BAS) | Met, Athens; Tübingen, Germany |
| https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Sahelanthropus_tchadensis_-_TM_266-01-060-1.jpg/100px-Sahelanthropus_tchadensis_-_TM_266-01-060-1.jpg | TM 266 (Toumai) | 7.00–6.00 | Sahelanthropus tchadensis | 2001 | ChadSite:Djurab Desert | Michel Brunet, Alain Beauvilain, Fanone Gongdibe, Mahamat Adoum and Ahounta Djimdoumalbaye | N'Djamena (Chad), BEAC |
| https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Orrorin_tugenensis.jpg/100px-Orrorin_tugenensis.jpg | BAR 1000'00 | 6.1–5.7 | Orrorin tugenensis | 2000 | KenyaSite:Lukeino | Martin Pickford, Kiptalam Cheboi, Dominique Gommery, Pierre Mein, Brigitte Senut | |
| https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Trachilos_Fu%C3%9Fspuren_13.jpg/103px-Trachilos_Fu%C3%9Fspuren_13.jpg | Trachilos footprints | 5.7 | Made by hominin or hominin-like primate | 2002 | Greece | Gerard D. Gierliński | |
| https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Ardipithecus_kadabba_fossils.jpg/100px-Ardipithecus_kadabba_fossils.jpg | ALA-VP 1/20 | 5.65±0.150 | Ardipithecu |