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Geotimes
April 2005 |
Redating the Earliest Humans Now 40 years later, researchers have pushed back the ages of Homo sapiens uncovered in the Omo Valley of Ethiopia to 195,000 years ago from the original date of 130,000.   |
Scientific American
July 2006
Blake Edgar |
Standing Up to Dance and Sing How we became hominid, then human.. These books explore our origins. The First Human: The Race to Discover our Earliest Ancestors by Ann Gibbons... The Singing Neanderthals: The origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body by Steven Mithen. |
Geotimes
April 2005
Laura Stafford |
New Evidence for the Earliest Hominid Scientists say they have new evidence confirming that Toumai, a skull found in the deserts of Central Africa, is a new hominid species -- the oldest known to date. |
Geotimes
September 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Controversy in the Cradle of Humankind East Africa indeed has much heritage to protect, as the region has been a hotspot for paleoanthropologists trying to understand the evolutionary relationships between early hominins since at least the 1950s. |
Geotimes
March 2005
Megan Sever |
Mother Lode of Hominid Fossils Researchers excavating in Ethiopia have recently discovered the remains of nine individual hominids from the Early Pliocene, thus helping scientists understand more of the human evolution puzzle. |
Geotimes
December 2006 |
Top Paleontology News Stories of 2006 Filling in hominid gaps... On the hominid migration trail... Probing into fossil details... Evolution back in schools?... etc. |
Geotimes
February 2004
Megan Sever |
An African puzzle piece The time period from 32 to 24 million years ago has largely been a black hole for paleontologists studying East Africa's animals. Newly discovered large vertebrate fossils from Ethiopia, however, are providing evidence that not only was there a thriving and diverse population, but also that it continued long after. |
Smithsonian
May 2005
Lawrence M. Small |
From the Secretary - Science Matters The Institution decides to focus on four basic scientific questions. |
Geotimes
March 2007
Megan Sever |
Out of Africa and into Russia Researchers excavating at a well-known archaeological site in Russia have found evidence of the earliest-known modern humans in Europe, pushing back the dates of when modern humans arrived in Europe. |
Scientific American
September 2009 |
Fossils for All: Science Suffers by Hoarding Paleontologists are overly possessive of human fossils. Science -- and the public -- suffers as a result |
Geotimes
May 2005
Megan Sever |
Inside the "Hobbit's" Head After studying the miniature hominid's skull and models of its brain, paleoanthropologists have determined that the Indonesian find is indeed a new species, not a Homo sapiens with a brain abnormality. |
Smithsonian
February 2007
Eric Jaffe |
Meditate on It Could ancient campfire rituals have separated us from Neanderthals? |
Smithsonian
April 2006
Lawrence M. Small |
Fred and Ginger "High tech" and "in a museum" aren't usually found in the same sentence. But just as our exhibitions increasingly incorporate 21st-century display screens, Smithsonian researchers are using cutting-edge technologies. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Callan Bentley |
Summer Roadtrip: A Fossil Aquarium in Wyoming Fossil Butte National Monument is located in southwestern Wyoming, near the town of Kemmerer. It is the best place in the world to see freshwater lake fossils from 50 million years ago. |
Geotimes
December 2005 |
Highlights 2005 -- Paleontology The "Great Dying" debate... Tracking human migration... More "hobbits" in Indonesia... T. rex bones break ground... An evolving debate... |
