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Ardipithecus: We Meet At Last

HumanComplex — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:45:11 -0800

Ardipithecus: We Meet At Last. (Single Link Carl Zimmer)

How Do We Know What We Know?

netbros — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:18:30 -0800

For most of us, science arrives in our lives packaged neatly as fact. But how did it get that way? Science is an active process of observation and investigation. Evidence: How Do We Know What We Know? [HTML version, Flash version also available] examines that process, revealing the ways in which ideas and information become knowledge and understanding. In this case study in human origins, the folks from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology explore how scientific evidence is being used to shape our current understanding of ourselves: What makes us human—and how did we get this way?

How We Evolve

homunculus — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:16:29 -0800

How We Evolve: "A growing number of scientists argue that human culture itself has become the foremost agent of biological change, making us — for the past 10,000 years or so — the inadvertent architects of our own future selves." Recent acceleration of human adaptive evolution (previously). International HapMap Project (previously). The Genographic Project (previously).

Australopithecus afarensis in the sky with diamonds

tugena13 — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:10:16 -0800

Lucy, one of the oldest and most complete fossilized hominid skeletons, is hitting the road. Although not without a little controversy. (And that's even before the creationists get wind of the tour!)

"We're Not Good."

ZachsMind — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:19:30 -0800

Robert Krulwich tells the tale of Dr. Alan Rabinowitz and his friend... "Dawi told Alan the terrible secret that explained why there were so few Taron (left in the world). And then Alan told Dawi a secret of his own..." (includes audio link)

From Big Bang to Humankind

WolfDaddy — Tue, 13 May 2003 16:55:31 -0800

Cosmic Evolution -- Particulate, Galactic, Stellar, Planetary, Chemical, Biological, Cultural (Via the Exploratorium)

fpatrick — Tue, 06 Aug 2002 05:22:19 -0800

Promiscuity is good. I knew something felt right about the '70s. (courtesy of Arts & Letters).

Espoo2 — Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:28:45 -0800

Really Old Skull debases "Out of Africa" theory. . . "The find calls into question a widely held hypothesis that the evolution of big brains propelled the exodus of early humans out of Africa."