| Excursions and inversions, mln years ago | Events in human evolution, mln years ago |
| 0,033 – Mono Lake a | 0,03 - disappearance of the Neanderthal men |
| 0,041 – Laschamp a | 0,042 –FOXP2 gene mutation 0,037 – microcephalin gene mutation с |
| 0,070 – Norwegian – Greenland Sea a | 0,070 - division of ancestral population into three races (according to the mtDNA) d |
| 0,120 – Blake a | 0,1 – age of the common ancestor of a modern man (according to Y - chromosome) e |
| 0,211 – Jamaica – Pringle Falls a | 0,23 – age of the common ancestor of a modern man (according to the mtDNA) e |
| 0,56 – 0,58 – Big Lost a 0,67 – Stage 17 а 0,78 – Matuyama – Brunhes 0,797 – Brunhes precursor a | 660,000±140,000 – division of the lines of a man and the Neanderthal men (according to the mtDNA) f |
| 0,78 - Matuyama – Brunhes h | 0,8 – age of the human ancestor according to beta-globin g |
| 1,95 – 1,79 – Olduvai i | 1,8 – appearance of Homo erectus j |
| 2,6 – Gauss – Matuyama k | 2,4±0,3 –mutation that provides an increase in brain volume among representatives of line Homo l 2,8 –mutation inactivating the gene, that encodes manufacturing of sucrose at the cell surface |