Late Miocene

The Late Miocene is a sub-epoch of the Miocene epoch made up of two stages: the Tortonian and Messinian. It lasted from 11.63 Ma to 5.333 Ma.

The evolution of ''Homo''

The gibbons and orangutans were the first groups to split from the line leading to the hominins, including humans, then gorillas, and finally chimpanzees and bonobos. The splitting date between hominin and chimpanzee lineages is placed by some between 4 and 8 million years ago, that is, during the Late Miocene.