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  1. Human Evolution - First Humans (Liozos)
      Provides pictures of fossils and artifacts believed to be early forms of humans. 5-00

  2. Evolution of Humans - A New Genus (National Geographic Society - Krause)
      Reports of a possible new genus of early hominids. The name of the new hominid is Kenyanthropus platyops. 3-01

  3. Humans Came from One Species (ScienceDaily.com)
      Summarizes a finding that all humans evolved from one species of Homo erectus. 6-02

  4. Oldest Homo Sapiens Humans Found (TalkOrigins.org)
      "Some new fossils from Herto in Ethiopia, are the oldest known modern human fossils, at 160,000 yrs. The discoverers have assigned them to a new subspecies, Homo sapiens idaltu, and say that they are anatomically and chronologically intermediate between older archaic humans and more recent fully modern humans. Their age and anatomy is cited as strong evidence for the emergence of modern humans from Africa, and against the multiregional theory which argues that modern humans evolved in many places around the world." 06-03

  5. History of Humans (BBC News)
      Provides a history of humans. 6-04

  6. Hobbit-Sized Ancient Humans Found (ABC News)
      "Subsequent finds of other similarly sized, 3-foot-tall humans with brains the size of grapefruits in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores suggest these 18,000-year-old specimens weren't a quirk of an ancient hominin, but part of an entire species of miniature people whose existence overlapped with that of modern Homo sapiens."

      "Brown and the other authors suggest that the newly found species, named Homo floresiensis, arrived on the island of Flores, in Indonesia's Nusa Tenggara region, in the form of Homo erectus, the first large-brained hominin that emerged some 2 million years ago in Africa and Asia." 10-04

  7. Genes to Trace Humanity's Migration (National Geographic)
      "New DNA studies suggest that all humans descended from a single African ancestor who lived some 60,000 years ago. To uncover the paths that lead from him to every living human, the National Geographic Society today launched the Genographic Project at its Washington, D.C., headquarters." 4-05

  8. Footprints of Early Modern Humans Found (NationalGeographic.com)
      "To paleoanthropologists, 'Eve' is a hypothetical female who lived somewhere in Africa between 100,000 and 300,000 years ago. She carried a particular type of mitochondrial DNA—genetic material that is passed on only through females. Scientists measuring the range of variation in mitochondrial DNA in different populations today have concluded that we all descend from one common female ancestor—'Eve.' "

      “ 'It’s highly unlikely, of course, that the actual 'Eve' made these prints,' Berger said, 'but they were made at the right time on the right continent to be hers.' ” 8-97

  9. Chimpanzee Genome and Human Evolution (Nature.com)
      "What makes us human? We share more than 98% of our DNA and almost all of our genes with our closest living relative, the chimpanzee. Comparing the genetic code of humans and chimps will allow the study of not only our similarities, but also the minute differences that set us apart."

      "Providing a resource for more than just genomics, Nature presents a special web focus to commemorate the genome of Pan troglodytes. Alongside the first unequivocal fossil evidence of the genus Pan, leading researchers have kindly supplied Nature with previously-unseen film of experiments and observations of chimps in the wild and from world-renowned sanctuaries."

  10. Future of Humans (MSNBC News)
      "Where are humans headed? Here's an imprudent assessment of five possible paths, ranging from homogenized humans to alien-looking hybrids bred for interstellar travel.”

      "When it comes to intelligence, some scientists say, the most likely route to our future enhancement — and perhaps our future competition as well — just might come from our own machines."

      On the other hand, "Two intelligent species, human and machine, just might work together to spread life through the universe." 9-05

  11. Future of Humans - Distant Future (MSNBC News)
      Projects up to 4 million years into the future. 9-05

  12. Human Evolution

  13. Were Human Ancestors Hunted by Birds? (MSNBC News)
      "An American researcher believes he has solved the mystery of how one of the most important human ancestors died nearly 2 million years ago: An eagle killed the 3˝-year-old ape-man known as the Taung child."

      "The discovery suggests that small human ancestors known as hominids had to survive being hunted not only by large predators on the ground but by fearsome raptors that swooped from the sky, said Lee Berger, a senior paleoanthropologist at Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand." 01-06

  14. Study: Chimps More Similar to Humans than Apes (Astrobio.net)
      "The results also confirm that there is very little difference in the alignable regions of the human and chimp genomes. Taken together, the study's findings suggest that humans and chimps are more closely related to each other than the chimps are to the other great apes."

      " 'I think we can say that this study provides further support for the hypothesis that humans and chimpanzees should be in one genus, rather than two different genus' because we not only share extremely similar genomes, we share similar generation time,' said Yi."

  15. Homo sapiens sapiens, the evolution of current humans.

  16. Homo Genus or Humans (Wikipedia.org)
      "Homo is the genus that includes modern humans and their close relatives. The genus is estimated to be between 1.5 and 2.5 million years old. All species except Homo sapiens are extinct. " 03-06

  17. -Our Evolution - Homo Sapiens Sapiens (O'Neil) star
      "All people today are classified as Homo sapiens sapiens--i.e., the sapiens variety of the species Homo sapiens. They first began to appear 130,000 years ago or somewhat earlier in association with technologies not unlike those of the early Neandertals. It is now clear that they did not come after the Neandertals but were their contemporaries." Provides a timeline, description, and different theoretical models about the development of current humans, Homo sapiens sapiens.

      Editor's Note: Homo sapiens sapiens, current humans, are the only known survivors of the genus Homo or the species sapiens. 06-03

  18. Our Evolution - Homo Sapiens Sapiens (Roper)
      Summarizes the known genetic history of current humans, as well as migration and climate patterns. Written at the college level. 06-03

  19. Timeline of Human Evolution (Wikipedia.org)
      Provides a history going back to when life first appeared on earth. 03-06

  20. Editorial: Genetic Mutation in the Brain Changed Humans (StanfordAlumni.org)
      "Most anthropologists agree that modern behavior emerged around 45,000 years ago, dramatically changing how people thought and lived." 03-06

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