Human Evolution

Where does human history begin? A few thousand years ago, with Adam & Eve? Or as far back as the last common ancestor of humans and apes---over 5 million years ago? Here's some useful stuff on the wonderful world of bones, aka, Paleoanthropology.

• The Talk.Origins Archive This is a fantastic site for anything connected with evolution. It is maintained by active members of the "Talk.origins" newsgroup. Included below are a number of especially useful pages from this site.

• Jury-Rigged Design Way to go, God! An occasionally hilarious, occasionally gross, collection of articles about plants and animals that got stuck with some pretty dumb things.

• Introduction to Evolutionary Biology A chapter-length article; excellent starting point for students with a real interest in the subject.
  
  
• Evidence for Evolution: An Eclectic Survey A variety of short articles presenting evidence for evolution from many different fields.
  

• Hominid Species A clear, six-page description of our ancestors, from Ardipithecus to Homo sapiens sapiens (us!)

• Fossil Hominids So how do we know about those million-year old dead guys? Click here for the best of the bones---all the famous hominid fossils, with lots of pictures.

• Paleoanthropology Links A collection of articles and links from the "talk.origins" people

Human Evolution Bibliographies A good list of books from the National Center for Science Education

• The Pope's Message on Evolution It's about time! Last year the Catholic Church acknowledged the convincing evidence for evolution, and made the case for a Christian acceptance of the theory.

• UC Museum of Paleontology Public Exhibits "Paleontology Without Walls," they call it. Some good stuff on evolution, phylogeny (all the different creatures), and geology.

• Creationisn vs. Evoloution Text of an editorial essay from National Public Radio

• The WWW Virtual Library: Evolution Harvard's site: lot of good links

• Origins of Humankind This is the homepage for the Institute of Human Origins, the place set up by Don Johansen, famous for digging up Lucy.
  
  
• Other WWW evolution links What it sounds like.

• Natural History Museums Dinosaurs and everything.

• Skullduggery Store Ever wonder where you could buy a Neanderthal skull? Sabre-tooth tiger fangs? This is the place for skulls!
  
  
• Evolution, Natural Selection and Speciation