Primate and Human Evolution

1. Lecture Readings TEXT: Introduction to Paleoanthropology (PDF) - Various chapters

2. Visit BecomingHuman.Org

3. Primate Evolution

4. Human Evolution (Main hominids to Homo sapiens)

   • Summary Chart (PDF is here and includes time line ad brain sizes) 
   • Summary Time Line
   • Time-Space Chart of Hominids
   • Brain sizes

   • In Secret Readings: A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad

   • Lucy walking models see this too

   • A million year gap

   • Mitochondrial DNA Clarifies Human Evolution by Max Ingman
     Origins of Modern Humans: Multiregional or Out of Africa? by Donald Johanson 
   • Another new fossil find!!! (Ardipithicus-Australopithicus links)
   • Read Hominid Species (with introduction and timeline)
   • Time Readings.
   • New fossil illustrates the bushiness of man's evolution in Secret Readings
   • Did Early African Hominids Eat Meat? Evidence for meat-eating by Australopithicus afarensus.
   • Early Hominids Mated with Chimp Ancestors
   • Fire and tools (Fire and tools PDF)
   • Out of Africa for Modern Humans
   • Early human migration interactive map (follow the mitochondrial and Y chromosome maps- It starts at 50,000 ybp)
   • In Secret Readings: Human Population Bottleneck
   • Also, Through the Bottleneck
   • Many More Human Evolution Links (There's a lot of overlap with this page)
5. Homo neanderthalensis 
   • DNA knocks Neanderthals out of our evolutionary tree.
   • Neanderthal DNA (Recent Genome Study)
   • Neanderthal Speech Controversy
   • 40,000-year-old skull shows both modern human and Neanderthal traits.
   • National Geographic Site on Neanderthals
6. Homo florensiensis
   • Homo floresiensis picture gallery
   • National Geographic site
   • Little lady of Flores
   • Flores, God, and Chryptozoology
   • The Flores Find
   • A Stranger from Flores
   • Human Evolution Writ Small
   • Read "A New Small-Bodied Hominin..." in Secret Readings
   • Hobbit Discovery Questioned
   • Studies of Brain Evolution
   • In Secret Readings: Flores man
   • Hobbit Declared a New Species  
   • When animals evolve on islands size doesn't matter
   • Hobbit or Human? (Article is here)
7. Communication and Behavior
   • Nonverbal communication
   • Gestural origins of human language.
   • In Secret Readings: The First Language
   • In Secret Readings: First Words
   • Click languages
   • Ancient Click Languages
   • Audios of Click Languages
   • Do Unto Others
   • The Scent of a Man in Secret Readings
   • The Trouble with Men in Secret Readings
   • Deep Voices and Men
   • Biological Aspects of Human Behavior
   • LAB PROJECT: Gesticulations (At the bottom of this link). READ Gestural origins of human language. 
     • THE POOLED CLASS DATA FOR THE HUMAN BEHAVIOR LAB ARE HERE.
   • War and Evolution
8. Social Behavior, Farming, Migration, etc.
   • The use of energy and its effects on human evolution. An interesting argument.
   • The Dance of Evolution: How Art Got It's Start
   • Art: Evolution or Revolution?
   • Cave and Rock Art.
   • New Light on the Oldest Art.
   • The First Cities: Why Settle Down? The Mystery of Communities.
   • The First Cities: Digging Into the Life of the Mind.
   • Ancient Island Tools Suggest Homo erectus Was a Seafarer.
   • Archaeology: Transitions in Prehistory. Read the Science article here.
   • Neolithic Agriculture: The Slow Birth of Agriculture.
   • Between Foraging and Farming.
   • Neolithic Agriculture: Reading the Signs of Ancient Animal Domestication.

9. Miscellaneous Stuff

   • More Human Evolution Links

   • Human Evolution Interactive

   • Human Evolution Explained

10. Chimp Things

    • CHIMPS MAKE TOOLS

    • Chimps use stone tools

    • Gorillas use tools

    • First Chimp Fossills

    • Chimp Culture

11. The future of Homo sapiens...

    1. Human Evolution Accelerating

    2. Before and After Humans Humans Interactive

    3. Darwin Again!

    4. The Technological Singularity (summaries and additional info is here)

    5. Darwin and the Machines

    6. Cyborg future