Evolution of Modern Humans: Related Internet Sites

Related Internet Sites

Hominid Evolution Links:

A Look at Modern Human Origins (extensive site with photos and information about specific fossil hominids maintained by C. David Kreger)

Becoming Human (major steps in hominid evolution illustrated and explained through videos, text, and graphic images--Arizona State University's Institute for Human Origins)

Neandertal and other Archaic Homo sapiens Links:

Archaic Homo sapiens (University of Minnesota, Duluth--links to photos and information about specific Neandertal finds)

Conflict and Care among the Neandertals (Scientific American news item Apr 23, 2002)

DNA Shows Neandertals Were Not Our Ancestors (Penn State--1997 article on mitochondrial DNA comparison from a Neandertal and modern humans)

French Fossils Reveal Caring Pre-Neandertals (Scientific American news item Sep 11, 2001)

Humans Lived North of the Arctic Circle During Last Ice Age (Scientific American news item Sep 6, 2001)

Images of Neandertals (talkorigins.org--changing representations of Neandertals)

Lagar Velho 1 Skeleton (talkorigins.org--article about the 1999 discovery of what has been called a Neandertal/modern human hybrid child skeleton from Lagar Velho, Portugal)

Neandertal DNA (Archaeology--July 1997 report on Neandertal mitochondrial DNA evidence)

Neanderthal Museum (museum for the original Neandertal site near Dusseldorf, Germany)

Neanderthal or Neandertal? (talkorigins.org--short history of classification of Neandertals)

Paleolithic Pit Stop: A French Site Suggests Neandertals and Early Modern Humans Behaved Similarly (Scientific American article by Kate Wong published in Dec 2000)

Study Suggests Neandertal Newborns Exhibited Distinctive Traits (Scientific American news item Aug 2, 2001)

Early Modern Humans Links:

Atlas of the Human Journey (very interesting interactive site of the evolution of modern humans; National Geographic Society)

Early Modern Humans Feasted on Freshwater Fish and Fowl (Scientific American news item May 22, 2001)

Is Out of Africa Going Out the Door? Reanalysis of Gene Studies and New Fossil Evidence Cast Doubts of a Popular Theory of Human Origins (Scientific American article by Kate Wong Aug 1999)

The Modern Human Origins Morass: Recent Studies Support a Controversial Theory of Human Evolution (Scientific American article by Kate Wong Jan 29, 2001)

Y Chromosome Study Suggests Asians, Too, Came from Africa (Scientific American news item May 11, 2001)

Early Stone Tools and Other Artifacts Links:

African Bone Tools Dispute Key Idea About Human Evolution (Nov 8, 2001 article in National Geographic)

Ice Age Art (virtual art gallery--Texas Humanities Resource Center)

Interpreting the Function of Stone Tools (extensive 1989 article by Roger Grace of the University of Essex, England)

Neanderthal Flute: Oldest Musical Instrument's 4 Notes Matches 4 of Do, Re, Mi Scale (Musicological Analysis by Bob Fink)

Principles of Lithic Technology (an interesting tutorial describing the mechanics of stone tool making--George H. Michaels and Brian M. Fagan)

Stone Age Reference Collection (Institute of Archaeology, University of Oslo, Norway--online reference program containing information about the typology, technology, raw materials, and study methods of the Stone Age)

Tool Time, 100,000 Years Ago (Scientific American news item Feb 6, 2001)

Upper Paleolithic European Tools (description and pictures of Aurignacian tools and sites)

Other Related Links:

Biology and Evolutionary Theory (maintained by the talk.origins Usenet newsgroup which is dedicated to the discussion and debate of biological and physical origins)

Forensic Anthropology (Description with good examples of what forensic anthropologists do in analyzing human skeletal remains--site created by Terri Winson at Kutztown University)

Journal of Human Evolution (articles on biological anthropology topics)

Radiometric Dating and the Geological Time Scale (detailed description of methodology)

Threatened Species (Red list of species now threatened with extinction; International Union for Conservation of Natural Resources)

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