Human Evolution

1. Becoming Human
2. Evolution of Chordates through Humans. Visit the site.
3. Human Evolution (An Encarta quickie)
4. Fossil Evolution in 3-d. COOL!
5. A very good review of human evolution can be found here.
6. Monkeys and human evolution. An execellent overview.
7. Which of Our Genes Make Us Human? Read about the genetic simularity between humans and chimpanzees.
8. Evolution of Humans is here.
9. The Rambling Road to Humanity. Read the Scientific American article here.
10. Human Origins Links.
11. Take the Lucy Test!
12. Human Prehistory: An Exhibition. See also this National Geographic web site on human origins.
13. Check this out: The African Emergence and Early Asian Dispersals of the Genus Homo. Read the full text, not just the abstract.
14. Genetic Study Shakes up the Out of Africa Theory. Read it here.
15. Y Chromosome Shows that Adam Was an African.
16. DNA from an Extinct Human.
17. Archaeology on the World Wide Web. Get the links from this paper.
18. Transcripts of the movies shown in class "In Search of Human Origins". Click here, then type "In search of human origins" (With the quotes) and choose the ones labeled Nova Online Transcripts In Search of Human Origins (1), (2), and (3).
19. Interview with Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar (Science Friday) This runs for one hour.
20. Mary Leakey: Unearthing History. Read about her contributions.
21. Cave and Rock Art.
22. Paloma World. Take a walk through a virtual reality village from 3500 BC. You'll need quicktime and shockwave to use this site.
23. Evolution and the Origins of Disease. Read it here.
24. Visit the web site: Origin and Evolution of Human Diet.
25. The Lives of Early Hominids. Visit the Website!
26. Did Early African Hominids Eat Meat? Evidence for meat-eating by Australopithicus afarensus.
27. Did bigger brains for throwing accuracy jump-start language? Read the synopsis here, the full article here.
28. See the missing link, Billapithecus bellarensis

See primate evolution PowerPoint presentation.