August 22nd, 2007
New and provocative fossils from Kenya
August 22, 2007Fossils from Kenya, with implications on the relationship between Homo habilis and Homo erectus, and uncovered in the year 2000, wee announced in a letter appearing in the August 9. 2007 issue of Nature. The authors, F. E. Spoor, M. G. Leakey et al.
August 7th, 2007
May 20th, 2007
My Dear Fellow Species
May 20, 2007"The Origin of Species" is almost 150 — a fit survivor of the science canon even if not everyone has seen fit to jump from the Ark to the Beagle on the matter of evolution (three Republican presidential candidates, for example). But Darwin himself was slow to come to his ideas, and slower still to disclose them to a skeptical public.
May 18th, 2007
The Ape in the Tree: An Intellectual and Natural History of Proconsul
May 18, 2007teaser: By Alan Walker and Pat Shipman
This book, written for the general public, details the history of one of the lesser known branches in our family tree. The subject is the genus Proconsul, a primate that lived in Africa some 18 million years ago during the Miocene epoch.
May 9th, 2007
March 16th, 2007
Clark Howell, 81, Leader in Study of Human Origins, Dies
March 16, 2007Noted leader in the field of human origins research dies Dr. Howell led or participated in fossil-hunting excavations around the world, in Turkey, Spain and China, as well as Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania.
March 15th, 2007
The New Science of Human Evolution
March 15, 2007The new science of the brain and DNA is rewriting the history of human origins is the somewhat grand claim appearing in the March 19 issue of Newsweek, now in the hands of subscribers and on newstands.
March 14th, 2007
Recommended Reading
March 15, 2007Teaser: Recommended reading for students seeking a survey of the discipline and also for the general reader interested in obtaining a thorough overview of the study of human origins.
Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins (Zimmer);
The Complete World of Human Evolution (Stringer & Andrews)
Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction (Wood)
March 7th, 2007
Archeologists Find Evidence of Chimp Tool Use
March 07, 2007Archaeologists Find Signs Of Early Chimps' Tool Use
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Published: February 13, 2007
October 13th, 2005
New Fossils of Homo floresiensis
October 13, 2005Additional fossils attributed to Homo floresiensis have been described. These fossils provided more evidence for an endemic species of small bodied Homo on Flores.
The new fossils are described in the following article: