Incredible Animation Shows How Humans Evolved From Early Life

Editor's Note: The video states that "humans have had a long history 3.8 million years in the making" when the correct figure should be 3.8 billion years. Dr. Briana Pobiner also works at the Smithsonian Institution, and not the Smithsonian Institute as stated in the video. We regret the errors.

Humans have had a long history. 3.8 billion years in the making, to be precise. From the primordial puddle to the modern day, here's how humans have evolved from the first life. The following is a review of the life forms depicted in the video:

Prokaryote, Cyanobacteria, Eukaryote, Choanoflagellate, Platyhelminthes (Flatworms), Pikaia, Haikouichthys, Agnatha, Placodermi, Cephalaspis, Coelacanth, Panderichthys, Tiktaalik, Acanthostega, Ichthyostega, Hynerpeton, Tulerpeton, Westlothiana, Hylonomus, Phthinosuchus, Cynognathus, Repenomamus, Juramaia, Plesiadapis, Carpolestes, Aegyptopithecus, Proconsul, Sivapithecus, Ouranopithecus, Orrorin, Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, Homo erectus, Neanderthal, Homo sapiens.

Special Thanks to Dr. Briana Pobiner, Research Scientist and Museum Educator of the Human Origins Program, Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institute.

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[Batigol]

Because of some fish try to walk in land so we have to wake up every morning for work.

[Hearshotkid_]

Only 4, 000, 000, 000 BC kids remember this.

[slim]

Really amazing. Biological life is such a complex structure of matter. The logic of DNA is incredible

[guywithbigwhitecock]

Remember when we just swimming in the water under volcanos, and didn't have to care about paying taxes? Ah the good old days.

[Genie_ZA]

Only the OGs remember when we used to swim in marianas trench😤😤😤

[PhianEditsYuh]

Just to think we used be a freaking cell 😭

[armenlatifi]

Who else remembers the good old days swimming around in the oceans 😫

[ynx_productions]

imagine sitting beside your cousin watching TV but he's a salamander...

[DerMatze]

That part when we were something like a rat gave me a bit of a shiver.

[dylankirby]

Slight error. Neanderthals are not one of our direct ancestors but a cousin group to humans.

[rabiahtulr.]

my fish ancestors wud be so mad knowing I cant swim 😔💔

[panyvino]

This is a representation of how your grandparents went to the school.

[Celrrose]

Only 90's kids remember when all the homies were bacteria

[ameyas]

You can see how our small sized ancestral creatures struggled to evolve very slowly in between, 300-256 million years ago to about 80-65 million years ago....but after 65 million years ago, our evolution just sped up insanely fast on an evolutionary timescale....it seems Humans have evolved faster and faster since, at each stage of our development..

[aliyahhhhh]

so my great grandma from 450 million years ago was a fish?

[soso]

Imagine eating a steak and realising it’s your cousin

[charlottespeedy]

This is the coolest evolution video on the internet

[axlh.]

* Sees literally any animal *

Me: *hey cousin*

[forgottenartist]

Ayes those days where theres no college, no jobs, and financial problem.. just swimming and eating whatever we eat

[cvhliys]

I wonder what intelligent beings and life on habitable planets look like 🤔