The Human LineLife & Evolution Neanderthals emerge c. 400,000 years agoMajor Our close cousins adapt to Ice Age Europe and western Asia. They bury dead, make tools and later interbreed with us. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Homo heidelbergensis → Neanderthals emerge Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumenthumanorigins.si.eduHomo neanderthalensis (Smithsonian Human Origins) ↗Editor's pickBookRebecca Wragg SykesKindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeNeanderthals documentary ↗Editor's pick