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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
June 2006
Megan Sever |
Found: One of Many Missing Human Links Researchers working in Ethiopia recently uncovered bones and teeth from one of many previously missing links in the hominid family tree. The newly found remains, researchers say, connect two well-known hominid species that are separated by 1 million years. |
Smithsonian
July 2007
Eric Jaffe |
Walk This Way A treadmill experiment is giving anthropologists runaway evidence about evolution: early human ancestors may have started walking upright because the process conserves energy compared with the four-limbed knuckle-walking of chimpanzees. |
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. |
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. |
Smithsonian
February 2005
Lawrence M. Small |
From the Secretary - Our Adaptable Ancestors Recent discoveries of skull fragments and tools testify to the resourcefulness of early humans. |
Technology Research News
August 13, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Skulls gain virtual faces For decades, forensic experts have identified the dead by using clay to sculpt faces on skulls. The effort to computerize the process has taken a big step forward with a tool that builds virtual muscles and skin on a 3-D skull scan. The models can even be animated to show different facial expressions. |
Science News
February 3, 2007 |
Timeline: From the January 30, 1937, Issue Notre Dame University Has New Atomic Gun... New Human Relative in Skull "of Greatest Importance"... "Yawn" and a Big Stretch Improves Rayon Fabrics... |
