Human evolution

Quality:

Human evolution - evolutionary process leading up to the appearance of anatomically modern humans. Article “Human evolution” in Simple English Wikipedia has 96 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 62 references and 15 sections.

This article has the best quality in Thai Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 898^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 2088^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1228^th most popular in all topics.

The 1527^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5694^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 316^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5154^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4473^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Human evolution” was edited by 3 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (316^th place) and written by 31 authors in all languages (4473^rd place).

Since the creation of article “Human evolution”, its content was written by 58 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (2088^th place) and edited by 5583 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1527^th place).

The article is cited 92 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9631 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #158 in October 2016
• Global: #45 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #242 in December 2016
• Global: #708 in September 2015

There are 53 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Thai (th) วิวัฒนาการของมนุษย์		100
2	Croatian (hr) Evolucija čovjeka		100
3	Georgian (ka) ადამიანის ევოლუცია		100
4	Basque (eu) Giza eboluzioa		100
5	Hebrew (he) אבולוציה של האדם		98.5709
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Evolucija čovjeka		98.2339
7	German (de) Stammesgeschichte des Menschen		97.1429
8	Simple English (simple) Human evolution		96.0468
9	Romanian (ro) Evoluția umană		95.1023
10	Indonesian (id) Evolusi manusia		94.2426

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Human evolution		23 807 845
2	Spanish (es) Evolución humana		23 217 254
3	Portuguese (pt) Evolução humana		4 276 510
4	Russian (ru) Антропогенез		4 233 948
5	Japanese (ja) 人類の進化		3 340 294
6	German (de) Stammesgeschichte des Menschen		2 949 780
7	French (fr) Histoire évolutive de la lignée humaine		2 695 559
8	Italian (it) Evoluzione umana		2 538 417
9	Persian (fa) فرگشت انسان		2 273 423
10	Polish (pl) Antropogeneza		1 835 829

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Human evolution		62 453
2	Spanish (es) Evolución humana		14 245
3	German (de) Stammesgeschichte des Menschen		8 874
4	Japanese (ja) 人類の進化		8 773
5	French (fr) Histoire évolutive de la lignée humaine		8 404
6	Russian (ru) Антропогенез		7 303
7	Persian (fa) فرگشت انسان		6 738
8	Chinese (zh) 人類演化		5 206
9	Italian (it) Evoluzione umana		4 232
10	Turkish (tr) İnsanın evrimi		3 567

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Human evolution		1 801
2	Spanish (es) Evolución humana		392
3	French (fr) Histoire évolutive de la lignée humaine		246
4	German (de) Stammesgeschichte des Menschen		221
5	Dutch (nl) Evolutie van de mens		201
6	Russian (ru) Антропогенез		201
7	Portuguese (pt) Evolução humana		189
8	Italian (it) Evoluzione umana		175
9	Persian (fa) فرگشت انسان		136
10	Polish (pl) Antropogeneza		130

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Evolución humana		5
2	Indonesian (id) Evolusi manusia		3
3	Simple English (simple) Human evolution		3
4	Azerbaijani (az) Antropogenez		2
5	Catalan (ca) Evolució dels éssers humans		2
6	Croatian (hr) Evolucija čovjeka		2
7	Japanese (ja) 人類の進化		2
8	Georgian (ka) ადამიანის ევოლუცია		2
9	Polish (pl) Antropogeneza		2
10	Greek (el) Ανθρώπινη εξέλιξη		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information