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I find this subject interesting and wanted to learn more about it so here is a timeline to help visualize the different kinds of fossils I was researching.
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Gibraltar skull discovered 1848 in Forbe's Quarry
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Found in Germany, People noticed the differences between this and human skulls were possibly due to pathology. Marked the start of Paleoanthropology as a science.
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Found in Trinil by Eugene Dubois. Years after this discovery it was described as a new species.
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Found a jaw in Mauer, Germany. Was named a new species
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the Taung skull analyzed by Raymond Dart was fully acknowledged as belonging to the human family tree.
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First time seen in this location leading to a reclassification.
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First one of our ancestors to get an accurate date with radiometric dating. Said to be 1.75 million years old.
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Scientists were disagreeing about naming fossil specimens as scientific names regarding new investigations.
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Classified as new species dated back 3.2 million years of a human ancestor.
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This finally disproved the single species theory and proved evolution was not linear.
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New species discovered. Not a chrono-species as previously thought.
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Found in Gran Dolina, were the oldest human remains found in Western Europe.
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The oldest fossil dated nearly 6 million years old. Highly debated.
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Thought to come before the split of human and chimp this discovery has high significance dating back to almost 7 million years old.
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a 90'000 year old bone suggests a hybrid DNA from a female with a Neanderthal mother and Denisovan father.
