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Becoming Human - http://www.becominghuman.org/
Arizona State University's Institute for Human Origins reviews four million years of human evolution in an interactive documentary. Includes an extensive glossary, a bibliography, and an annotated set of links. [Requires Flash and a high-speed connection.] |
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Institute of Human Origins - http://www.asu.edu/clas/iho/
A non-profit, multidisciplinary research organization, affiliated with Arizona State University, dedicated to the recovery and analysis of the fossil evidence for human evolution. |
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Prominent Hominid Fossils - http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/specimen.html
The list is sorted by species, going from older to more recent species. Within each species, finds are sorted by the order of their discovery. Each species has a type specimen which was used to define it. |
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Human Origins and Evolution in Africa - http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/
Links for primates, human evolution and paleoecology, course notes on Human Origins, and Jeanne Sept's personal web pages at Indiana University. |
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Archaeology Info - http://www.archaeologyinfo.com/
Human evolution and archaeology online resource for amateurs and experts alike. |
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Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence in 3D - http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/
3D gallery of the skulls of five modern primate relatives and five fossil ancestors of humans contains, each of which may be rotated through 360 degrees. With accompanying descriptions. |
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Australian and Asian Palaeoanthropology - http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~pbrown3/palaeo.html
Information and teaching resources on human evolution and the hominid fossil record from Australia, East Asia and South-East Asia. |
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Human Origins and Prehistory - http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/teach/A105.html
Class page to go along with Indiana University's anthropology class, A105. Lectures cover the human place among the pages, evolution theories, genetics and current research. Related resource links are included. |
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A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution - http://www.williamcalvin.com/BrainForAllSeasons/index.htm
Offers an outline of William Calvin's from his book about a theory about human brain evolution and climate change. |
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Human Prehistory - http://users.hol.gr/~dilos/prehis.htm
Exhibit that "walks through" the various stages of human evolution. |
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Handprint : Ancestral Lines - http://www.handprint.com/LS/ANC/evol.html
Provides an'interactive' graph that maps the journey of our hominid ancestors from 5 million years ago to present day with descriptions of the various species. |
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Sahelanthropus tchadensis - Toumai - http://www.sahelanthropus.com
Web Resources for Sahelanthropus tchadensis aka "Toumai" can be found here. |
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Paleoanthropology in the 1990's - http://www.jqjacobs.net/anthro/paleo/
A series of fifteen essays about the most recent findings in the study of human origins and evolution. |
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Modern Human Origins - http://www.modernhumanorigins.com/
A reference site for information on human evolution, with images of hominid specimens arranged by species and site, papers written by C David Kreger, and a bibliography. |
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Human Origins - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1997/May/hour2_050997.html
Radio program discusses fossil discoveries that may provide the earliest documented evidence of toolmaking, and push the origin of homo sapiens back more than 400,000 years. A discussion featuring Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar. |
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Did Language Reduce Sequence Variation? The Evolution of Humans - http://www.geocities.com/acgyles/minid.html
Two articles regarding theories of rapid evolution through biased gene conversion and loss of allelic variation, leading to the winnowing of the bushy hominid tree. |
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Think Quest: Human Origins - http://library.thinkquest.org/26070/data/eng/
Aimed at both students and educators alike, providing factual information and follow up questions about human origins. |
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Theory of Human Evolution - http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/biology/humanevolution/
The Emuseum's general overview of human evolution summarizing people in the study of human evolution, terms, hominid fossil images and links. |
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Handy Clues to Ascent of Man - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1154491.stm
BBC News report on study suggesting that the precision grip of early modern humans may have allowed them to triumph over Neanderthals. |
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BBC News: 'Oldest' Ape-man Fossils Revealed - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1157536.stm
Scientists unveiled the remains of a hominid said to be six million years old. |
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Human Evolution Pictures and Timelines - http://www.wilderdom.com/evolution/HumanEvolutionPictures.htm
A collection of pictures and timelines depicting the evolution of human beings. |
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A Look at Our Ancestors - http://www.humboldt.edu/~mrc1/
Humboldt University's summary of the hominid evolutionary line, with species involved grouped by genus. |
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BBC News: Asteroids May Have Affected Human Evolution - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1272368.stm
The ascent of mankind could have been influenced by frequent cosmic catastrophes. |
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Human Origin - http://home13.inet.tele.dk/palm/homweb.htm
A proposal of an evolutionary explanation of the human bipedallity, sexual behaviour, language, and consciousness. |
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Paleoprimatology & Human Evolution Yahoo! Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/paleoanthropology/
A forum for the scientific discussion of paleoanthropology, paleoprimatology, physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, Stone Age archeology, human origins, primate biology, and primate evolution. |
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Human Origins and Development of Culture - http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/origins/
Covers the development of humans from our ancestors. In module format. |
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Spirituality and Evolution - http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/jes999/HumNat.htm
This article discusses the evolutionary significance of spiritual development. |
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Scientific American: Food for Thought - http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0007B7DC-6738-1DC9-AF71809EC588EEDF
Article, by William R. Leonard, arguing that dietary change was a driving force in human evolution. |
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New Scientist: Dawn of Human Race Uncovered - http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3814
The discovery of three Ethiopian skulls from 160,000 years ago, showing almost completely modern features, lends new support to the Out-of-Africa hypothesis. Includes information about handling of skulls after death and dating techniques used. |
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New Scientist: Chromosomes reveal surprise human-chimp differences - http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn5044
Comparisons of newly-sequenced chimpanzee chromosome 22 and its counterpart, human chromosome 21, show that while the DNA differences are small, they are spread out to affect 83 percent of the proteins coded for. |