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This is about fossils and the evolution of species.
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. -
Homo neanderthalensis
Gibraltar skull discovered 1848 in Forbe's Quarry -
Neanderthal 1 skull cap
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. -
Homo erectus - Java & China
Found in Trinil by Eugene Dubois. Years after this discovery it was described as a new species. -
Homo heidelbergensis
Found a jaw in Mauer, Germany. Was named a new species -
Australopithecus africanus - South Africa
the Taung skull analyzed by Raymond Dart was fully acknowledged as belonging to the human family tree. -
Paranthropus robustus - South Africa
First time seen in this location leading to a reclassification. -
Paranthropus boisei - Olduvai Gorge
First one of our ancestors to get an accurate date with radiometric dating. Said to be 1.75 million years old. -
Homo rudolfensis KNM-ER 1470 found in East Turkana
Scientists were disagreeing about naming fossil specimens as scientific names regarding new investigations. -
Australopithecus afarensis - Lucy in Hadar, Ethiopia
Classified as new species dated back 3.2 million years of a human ancestor. -
Homo ergaster - East Africa
This finally disproved the single species theory and proved evolution was not linear. -
Australopithecus anamensis - Kenya
New species discovered. Not a chrono-species as previously thought. -
Homo antecessor - Spain
Found in Gran Dolina, were the oldest human remains found in Western Europe. -
Orrorin tugenensis - Kenya
The oldest fossil dated nearly 6 million years old. Highly debated. -
Sahelanthropus tchadensis - Chad
Thought to come before the split of human and chimp this discovery has high significance dating back to almost 7 million years old. -
Hybrid
a 90'000 year old bone suggests a hybrid DNA from a female with a Neanderthal mother and Denisovan father.
