Trail markers - CENOZOIC
6 mya we shared a common ancestor with these hominid apes who's African habitat is divided by the Congo river. They are our closest evolutionary cousins in the animal world and are deserving of legal personhood.
7 mya we shared a common ancestry with these gentle, herbivorous forest giants whose habitat is severely threatened by human encroachment.
14 mya we shared a common ancestry these "forest (hutan) people (orang)", the only surviving arboreal Ponginae which are confined to the rain forests of Borneo and Sumatra.
18 mya we shared a common ancestry with these hylobatidae (non-hominid hominoid), asian tail-less lesser apes.
25 mya we shared a common ancestry with these catarrhini (downward facing nostrils) primates with grasping hands and feet (with the exception of humans).
40 mya we shared a common ancestry with these platyrrhini (flat nosed with side facing nostrils) monkeys which include the only monkeys with prehensile tails.
58 mya we shared a common ancestry with these wide eyed, nocturnal haplorrhines (dry/simple nosed) which lack a tapetum lucidium common in other nocturnal animals.
63 mya we shared a common ancestor with these strepsirrhine primates that only survive on the island of Madagascar where they were stranded after the split up of Gondwana.
Trail markers - MESOZOIC
From 252 - 66 mya
70 mya we shared a common ancestry with these Euarchonta ("True Ancestors" of all primates and flying lemurs)
95 mya in the late Cretaceous period, we shared a common ancestor with these "strange jointed" creatures which include anteaters, sloths and armadillos.