~: M H O :~ Familiar Faces... (Extremely Rare)

Naturmuseum Senckenberg (The Senckenberg Natural History Museum) in Frankfurt shows a spectacular reconstructions of our ancestors. The traces of the human past are extremely rare.Only one corpse in a million becomes a fossil. The number of known fossil remains of  pre-human species is only a few thousand.Sometimes entire species are known only by the discovery of a jaw or a single, fragmentary skull. Using sophisticated research methods, German scientist tried to form an images of our ancestors, that would appear consistent. And this is what they came up with! 1.Sahelanthropus tchadensis Found: Skull of an adult, the jaw parts and individual teeth, in 2001 Location: Toros Menalla, Djurab desert, Chad Lived: about 6.8 million years ago . 2.Australopithecus afarensis Found:compound skull and jaw from different parts of adult individuals, on  November 2, 1975 Location: Hadar, Afar Region, Ethiopia Lived: about 3.2 million years ago . 3.Australopithecus africanus Found: Skull of a probable adult female, on  April 18,1947 Location: Sterkfontein, South Africa Lived: about 2.5 million years ago . 4.Paranthropus aethiopicus Black Skull� Found: Skull of a presumably adult male,  on  August 29, 1985 Location: West Turkana, Kenya Lived: about 2.5 million years ago . 5.Homo rudolfensis Found: Skull of a presumably adult male, in August 1972 Location: Koobi Fora, Kenya Lived: about 1.9 until 1.8 million years ago . 6.Homo habilis Found:  Skull of a probable adult female, in 1973 Location: Koobi Fora, Kenya Lived: about 1.9 until 1.8 million years ago . 7.Paranthropus boisei Found: Skull of an adult male, on  Juli 17, 1959 Location: Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania Lived: about 1.8 million years ago . 8.Homo ergaster Turkana Boy� Found: skull and lower jaw of a male adolescents and nearly complete skeleton, on  August 22, 1984 Location: Nariokotome, Kenya Lived: about 1.6 million years ago . 9.Homo erectus Found: Skull of a presumably adult male, on  September 13, 1969 Location: Sangiran, Java, Indonesia Lived: about 800,000 years ago . 10.Homo antecessor Found: Part of the skull of a child found in 1995 Location: Atapuerca, Gran Dolina cave, Spain Lived: about 800,000 years ago . 11.Homo heidelbergensis Miquelon� Found: the skull and lower jaw of a presumably adult male in July 1993 Location: Atapuerca, Sima de los Huesos, Spain Estimated Size: 1.75 m, 60 to 80 kg Lived: about 500,000 to 350,000 years ago . 12.Homo floresiensis Hobbit� Found: skull and mandible of a female adult and possibly parts of the skeleton, September 2003 Location: Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia Lived: about 18,000 years ago . 13.Homo neanderthalensis Old man of La Chapelle� Found: the skull and jaw of an adult male and parts of the skeleton, found on  August 3, 1908 Location: La Chapelle-aux- Saints, France Lived: about 56,000 years ago . 14.Homo sapiens Found: skull and mandible of a young female adults, and parts of the skeleton, 1969 Location: Qafzeh Cave, Israel Lived: between 100,000 and 90,000 years ago " Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate!"