If you have not read the first part of the fossil record post, please do that, it shows the human fossil record from millions of years ago to thousands of years ago:
http://finshaggy.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-fossil-record.html
There have been various DNA discoveries that have showed us more and more about humanity. The oldest traces of DNA that can be found in an ancient person that can be found in people today is from the "Pit of Bones" in Spain, which is located at the Atapuerca Mountains. This DNA was found to have been related to the "Denisovans" which as you will see later, used to interbreed with modern humans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atapuerca_Mountains
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/pit-bones-yields-oldest-human-dna/story?id=21093890
Then there is "Mitochondrial Eve" which is a theoretical mother of humanity that has been found by looking in to the human genome. And this has also allowed us to map where we think humans traveled. Looking in to the genome also allows scientists to look for cataclysmic events, which are marked by small populations meaning not many choices in mates aka not a big gene pool at certain times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
Then there was the discovery of Denisovans, which actually came before the Pit of Bones discovery. And when they tested Denisovan DNA, they found that it had traces of modern human DNA.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/denisovan-genome/
Then around 40,000 years ago, thanks to Tianyuan cave we see that people in Asia were related to Native Americans. And the DNA of the Clovis boy backs this up.
http://www.pnas.org/content/110/6/2223.short
And Siberian DNA found in Malta, shows that 24,000 years ago Siberians were related to Native Americans.
http://geogenetics.ku.dk/latest-news/malta/
Then comes the native Brazilian "Indians" that had Polynesian DNA.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/03/brazil-polynesia-link-dna-skulls_n_2999690.html
No one is really sure exactly how history went right now, but we are getting closer.
People talk about "The Fossil Record" but no one ever has a record to show you. So I made a giant list. The reason we have mostly skulls is because they are made to handle impact and seem to last longer than any other part of the body. And many of these were found in places that no one had ever found anything. These people usually just go out to some place random country that someone else found something in and look around the desert or mountains, etc. Modern Humans are most notable for our teeth, which marks the true shift in to the modern type of humans. Eventually mummies became the best way for Archaeologists to get a "snapshot in time".
(the colors of these people are not meant to represent the fossil record, it is just the only one online that shows both male and female evolution)
part 2 when you are done is "The DNA Record"
http://finshaggy.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-dna-record.html
Sahelanthropus 7 Million years ago
Orririn 6.1-5.7 Million years ago
Ardi 4.4 Million
Laetoli Footprints, first evidence of walking upright 3.6 Million years ago
Australopithecus Bahrelghazali (Abel) 3.6 Million years ago
Kenyathropus 3.5 Million years ago
Little Foot Fossil 3.3 Million years ago
Lucy's Baby 3.3 Million years ago
Lucy 3.2 Million years ago
AL-200-1 3 Million years ago
STS-14 2.7 Million years ago
Mrs. Ples 2.5 Million years ago
Taung Child 2.5 Million years ago
The Black Skull 2.5 Million years ago
STS-71 2.5 Million years ago
Nutcracker Man 2 Million years ago
Homo Habilis 1.4-2.3 Million years ago
KNM-ER-1813 1.9 Million years ago
KNM-ER-1470 1.9 Million years ago
D2700 Dmansi Skull 1.8 Million years ago
OH24 "Twiggy" 1.8 Million years ago
KNM-ER-3733 1.8 Million years ago
TM-1517 1.7 Million years ago
Yuanmou Man 1.7 Million years ago
KNM-ER-406 1.7 Million years ago
KNM-ER-3883 1.6 Million years ago
KNM-ER-992 1.5 Million years ago
Turkana Boy 1.5 Million years ago
Daka Skull 1 Million years ago
Gran Dolina 780,000-800,000 years ago
Peking Man 750,000 years ago
Petralona Cave Man 700,000 years ago
Bodo 600,000 years ago
Mauer 1 600,000 years ago
Denisovan DNA 40,000-700,000 years ago
Tautavel Man 450,000 years ago
Miguelon 400,000 years ago
Alta Mura Man 400,000 years ago
Swanscombe Man 400,000 years ago
Spanish DNA 400,000 years ago from the "Pit of Bones"
Pit of Bones 350,000 years old murder scene
Steinheim Skull 350,000 years ago
Kabwe Homo Rhodesiensis 125,000-300,000 years ago
Bontnewydd 230,000 years ago
Dali Skull 200,000 years ago
Mitochondrial Eve 100,000-200,000 years ago
Omo Remains 195,000 years ago
Idaltu 160,000 years ago
Krapina Fossils 100,000-127,000 years ago
Klasies River Caves 125,000 years ago
Tabun Cave Woman 120,000 years ago
Skhuland Qafzeh Hominids 80,000-100,000 years ago
Homo Floresienses 13,000-94,000 years ago
Shanider Cave 60,000-80,000 years ago
La Farrassie 1 10,000-50,000 years ago
La Chapelle Aux Saints 60,000 years ago
Mungo Man 50,000 years ago
Le Moustier 45,000 years ago
Neanderthal 1 40,000 years ago
Pestra Cu Oase 37,800 years ago
Hofmeyr Skull 37,000 years ago
Gibraltar 1 30,000-50,000 years ago
Kent's Cavern 35,000 years ago
Red Lady of Paviland 33,000 years ago
Yamashita Cave Men 32,000 years ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamashita_Cave_Man
Cro Magnon 1 27,500 years ago
Predmost 3 25,000-30,000 years ago
Clogg's Cave 17,000 years ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloggs_Cave
Minatogawa Man 15,000 years ago
Eve of Naharon 13,600 years ago
Luzia Woman 11,500 years ago
Kow Swamp Site 6,000-13,000 BC
La Brea Woman 10,000 years ago
Minnesota Woman 8,000 years ago
Uan Muhuggiag 5,000-8,000 years ago
Bog Bodies 9,000 BC to present
Spirit Cave Mummy 9,400 years old
Combe Capelle 7575 BC
Cheddar Man 7150 BC
Chinchorro Mummies 1800-7020 BC
Tepexpan Man 4,700-10,000 years old
Otzi 3,300 BC
3,600 Year Old Egyptian Mummy
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/13/world/africa/egypt-mummy-discovery/
Tarim Mummies 1,800 BC
Egtvedgirl 1390 BC
Ramses II 1213 BC
