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  1. Pollution and Humans (Kids' Almanac)
      Provides a timeline of events related to protecting the environment from pesticides, poisons, and other pollutants.

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

  3. 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

  4. Terraforming Mars for Humans (HowStuffWorks.com)
      Describes how Mars may be changed to allow humans to live there. 4-01

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

  6. 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

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

  8. 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

  9. Humans Natural Long Distance Runners (ABC News)
      "From our spring-loaded ligaments to our muscular behinds to our ability to sweat, the human body took the ideal shape of a long-distance runner starting some 2 million years ago, the researchers say. The long, lean build helped us scavenge widely scattered kills and could also have been an advantage when hunting down prey over long distances."

  10. 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

  11. 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

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

  13. 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."

  14. -03-14-06 Scientist: 50-50 Chance of Bird Flu Hitting Humans (ABC News)
      "Robert G. Webster is one of the few bird flu experts confident enough to answer the key question: Will the avian flu switch from posing a terrible hazard to birds to becoming a real threat to humans?"

      "There are 'about even odds at this time for the virus to learn how to transmit human to human,' he told ABC's 'World News Tonight.' Webster, the Rosemary Thomas Chair at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., is credited with being the first scientist to find the link between human flu and bird flu." 03-06

  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. 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

  18. Scientists: BPA Chemical May Be a Problem for Humans (PBS.org)
      "The chemical bisphenol A, known as BPA, is used to make many common plastic products used in U.S. homes, including baby bottles. Scientists and expert panels have been tasked with determining whether BPA has adverse effects on human health." 10-07

  19. Where Humans Are Headed Genetically (U.S. News)
      "Hawks is among a growing number of scientists who are using whole-genome sequencing and other modern technologies to zero in on just how we've changed. Their research is helping illuminate not only how humans became what we are but also where we might be headed." 07-08

  20. Nurtured Apes Show Higher IQ than Humans at 9 Months (MSNBC News)
      "Orphaned infant chimpanzees that received attentive, nurturing care from human surrogate mothers were found to be more intellectually advanced than the average human baby when both groups were compared at the age of nine months, according to a new study published in the latest issue of Developmental Psychobiology."

      "Lead researcher Kim Bard added, however, that 'Clearly the extensive linguistic ability of humans, and their ability to construct complex objects, such as the computer I'm using now, are beyond the capacity of chimpanzees.' "

      Researcher Van Ijzendoorn commented also. " 'At the moment, hundreds of thousands of orphans — either social orphans abandoned by their parents or orphans who lost their parents because of AIDS (and other reasons) — are raised in orphanages in Eastern European countries, Africa, China, India and elsewhere,' he said, concluding that 'enrichment of the environment in the orphanages can make a big difference in cognitive development, and we think also for emotional development.' "

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