Three truths
- Timed
- Branched off about 600 thousand years ago · the last 0.01% of life's story
- Named
- No living species
- Weighed
- Extinct: no biomass today.
Eukaryotes · animals
Neanderthals
Extinct · died out about 40 thousand years ago, end of the Quaternary
A full profile for this group has not been written yet. Its place in the tree and its dates are shown below.
Many people alive today carry a little Neanderthal DNA.
- Branched off
- About 600 thousand years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Our genus, Homo
Classification
- First common ancestor (LUCA)
- › Archaea
- › Asgard archaea
- › Heimdall and complex-cell line
- › Complex cells (eukaryotes)
- › Amorphea
- › Opisthokonts
- › Holozoa
- › Animals
- › Parahoxozoa
- › Bilaterians
- › Deuterostomes
- › Chordates
- › Vertebrates
- › Jawed vertebrates
- › Bony vertebrates
- › Lobe-finned vertebrates
- › Four-limbed vertebrates
- › Amniotes
- › Synapsids
- › Therapsids
- › Mammals
- › Live-bearing mammals
- › Placental mammals
- › Boreoeutherians
- › Euarchontoglires
- › Primates
- › Monkeys and apes
- › Old World monkeys and apes
- › Apes
- › Great apes
- › African apes
- › Chimpanzee and human lines
- › Our genus, Homo
- › Neanderthals
Sources
- TimeTree: the timescale of life · TimeTree
- Open Tree of Life · Open Tree of Life
- Tree of Life Web Project · Tree of Life Web Project