Evolution
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- Handprint : Ancestral Lines
- 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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- Hominid Evolution
- An unorthodox human evolution theory based on a synthesis of biological and cultural theory and new discoveries in neuropsychology.
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- Hominid Species
- Provides information on the discovery of hominid fossils in different parts of the world and the time range in which each species lived.
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- Human Evolution
- Comprehensive information from Wikipedia on the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species from other hominans, great apes and placental mammals.
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- Human Evolution
- Similarities found among early myths suggest that our cultural origins began in female centered tribes which slowly evolved toward patrifocal social structures 40,000 to 100,000 years ago.
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- Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence in 3D
- 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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- Human Origin Program
- Smithsonian Institution's journey through five million years of human evolution.
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- Human Origins and Evolution in Africa
- 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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- Human Origins and Prehistory
- 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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- Maropeng
- The official visitor centres for the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, Gauteng, South Africa. Provides information on the Sterkfontein Caves, the exhibition, and the other facilities for conferences, education and accommodation.
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- Nariokotome Reconstruction
- Sculptural and forensic techniques used to approximate what the Nariokotome boy (KNM-WT-15000)looked like in life.
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- Paleoanthropology in the 1990's
- A series of fifteen essays about the most recent findings in the study of human origins and evolution.
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- Prominent Hominid Fossils
- 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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- Reflections on the Origins of Scavenging and Hunting in Early Hominids
- An essay by James Q. Jacobs discussing when our earliest human ancestors first began to scavenge for meat and hunt. Includes references.
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- Sahelanthropus tchadensis
- Picture and discussion of the fossil cranium TM 266-01-060-1 (Toumaï) found in Chad in 2001. It is estimated to be between six and seven million years old. Until other early hominid fossils are found to provide context it cannot be known how this species relates to the human, chimp, or even gorilla lines.