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Early Evolution of Hominids
  1. Summary Chart (PDF is here and includes time line ad brain sizes)
  2. Summary Time Line
  3. Time-Space Chart of Hominids
  4. Human Evolution Interactive
  5. Read Hominid Species (with introduction and timeline)
  6. Brain sizes
  7. Fire and tools (Fire and tools PDF)
  8. Gurche Paleo-Art
  9. As the tree grows
  10. Check out Hominid Fossils (ignore all creationist arguments)
  11. The Rambling Road to Humanity. Read the Scientific American article here.
  12. A new Australopithicus find!
  13. Skull and Fossils Found in Ethiopia Prompt Missing-Link Debate
  14. A new missing link: Australopithecus garhi
  15. Lucy walking models see this too
  16. Time Readings.
  17. A Million-Year-Old Relative.
  18. Modern Human Origins.
  19. Shared Paternity in South American Tribes.
  20. Supernova may have affected human evolution then see this piece on human bottleneck
  21. Early Hominids Mated with Chimp Ancestors

Genetics

  1. Which of Our Genes Make Us Human? Read about the genetic similarity between humans and chimpanzees.
  2. Genetic Study Shakes up the Out of Africa Theory. Read it here.
  3. DNA knocks Neanderthals out of our evolutionary tree. See the summary here. More is here: DNA from an Extinct Human.
  4. Y Chromosome Shows that Adam Was an African.
  5. Human bottleneck
  6. Geneticists find link to brain evolution

General Behavior

  1. Did Early African Hominids Eat Meat? Evidence for meat-eating by Australopithicus afarensus.
  2. Stone tool use by an Autralopithecine. Hear the interview here.
  3. Check this out: We are all Africans
  4. Evolution of Breasts in Humans.
  5. Hominid Brain Evolution: Check out William Calvin's Homepage
  6. Did bigger brains for throwing accuracy jump-start language? Read the full article here.
  7. The Evolution of the Brain.
  8. A high point of evolution: Evolution of the human brain.
  9. Climate and Intelligence.
  10. The Oldest Known Stone Tools.
  11. Visit the web site: Origin and Evolution of Human Diet.
  12. Why is Homo sapiens so competitive?
  13. Evolution and Mental Illness

  14. Biological Aspects of Human Behavior

  15. Behavior Genetics

  16. Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective (J. Philippe Rushton)

  17. "God Module" is found in the brain. The biological basis of religion? More is here and here.

  18. Cannibals in our DNA

Language

  1. Anthropology: No Last Word on Language Origins.

  2. Evolution of language

  3. Go to SECRET readings for more on the evolution of language

Neanderthals

  1. A possible ancestor to Neanderthals and modern humans.
  2. Review of The Neanderthal Legacy.
  3. There's a little Neanderthal in all of us!
  4. New information on the Fate of the Neanderthals: Read about it here.
  5. Anthropology: How Much Like Us Were the Neanderthals?
  6. Neanderthals left speechless.
  7. A Neanderthal-Human hybrid?
  8. Neanderthal music (see here too).
  9. Neanderthals were Cannibals. Full text here.

Homo floresiensis

  1. Homo floresiensis picture gallery
  2. National Geographic site
  3. Little lady of Flores
  4. Flores, God, and Chryptozoology
  5. The Flores Find
  6. A Stranger from Flores
  7. Human Evolution Writ Small
  8. Read in Secret Readings
  9. Hobbit Discovery Questioned

Social Behavior, Farming, Migration, etc.

  1. The use of energy and its effects on human evolution. An interesting argument.
  2. Art: Evolution or Revolution?
  3. Cave and Rock Art.
  4. New Light on the Oldest Art.
  5. The First Cities: Why Settle Down? The Mystery of Communities.
  6. The First Cities: Digging Into the Life of the Mind.
  7. Ancient Island Tools Suggest Homo erectus Was a Seafarer.
  8. Archaeology: Transitions in Prehistory. Read the Science article here.
  9. Neolithic Agriculture: The Slow Birth of Agriculture.
  10. Between Foraging and Farming.
  11. Neolithic Agriculture: Reading the Signs of Ancient Animal Domestication.

Miscellaneous

  1. Becoming Human
  2. Archaeology on the World Wide Web. Get the links from this paper.
  3. Human Prehistory: An Exhibition. See also this National Geographic web site on human origins.
  4. 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).
  5. Neanderthal Heaven. Resources and Neanderthal Links.
  6. Interview with Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar (Science Friday) This runs for one hour. You'll need Real Audio. Get that here.
  7. Effects of Humans on Extinction of Animals. Read the synopsis here; the full article here.
  8. Evolution and Race
  9. Geneticists find link to brain evolution
  10. We were meant to be
  11. Darwinian Medicine
  12. Cyborg future