Better than this traditional exhibit of various human skulls from various locations and times are the limestone/shale fossil formations in England (I have long ago forgotten their names).
We learned about them in “stratigraphy” and “paleontology” in the 60’s.
They show, in a large vertical/layered series of formations, how an ammonoid (a shelled creature similar to our chambered Nautilus of today) evolved over millions of years in the same region.
Also, I found fossils near the old Capital Center in Largo, Md. where a Cretaceous formation was underlying a Paleocene (60-65 Million) formation. In the Cretaceous formation there was one species of shark with a tooth shape I had never seen before, plus turtle, fish, Mosasaur, crocodile, and ammonoid fossils (shells, teeth, vertebrae, bones etc.
Oh, did I leave out the fact that my daughter found a dinosaur toe-bone, too, all in the same cretaceous formation (confirmed by the Smithsonian Institution). It all changed during the Eocene period when all we had was about 5 different species of shark, Ostrea (oyster shells), some clam shells (Cullculae Gigantis), and worm tubes.
yes, I’ll take my reward in US dollars and some gold
Are you pretending that one of these specimens is THE “missing link” between two others?