Human Origins
Where we came from
The Wikipedia article on human origins
"The Evidence for Human Evolution" from the TalkOrigins Archive
Jun 8, 2011
"Stone fragments found in Georgia suggest [homo erectus] might have evolved outside Africa."
May 10, 2011
"New radiocarbon dating suggests that Neandertals went extinct shortly after modern humans invaded their territories"
Apr 29, 2011
"Right-handedness reaches back a half million years in the human evolutionary family, at least if scratched-up fossil teeth have anything to say about it."
Apr 25, 2011
"Around six million years ago in
Apr 20, 2011
"Fossils described last year as representatives of an ancient species critical to human evolution have re-entered the scientific spotlight and set off a new round of debate over the finds' true identity."
Apr 15, 2011
"An analysis implies that modern language originated only once, in southern Africa, a surprising finding."
Mar 25, 2011
"Researchers say the tools may be as old as 15,500 years, retiring a long-held hypothesis that the so-called Clovis people, who came from Asia 13,000 years ago, were the first to arrive."
Mar 15, 2011
"Our love for animals can be traced to our capacity to infer the mental states of others, which archaeological evidence suggests emerged more than 50,000 ago."
Mar 15, 2011
"A new study argues that
Mar 11, 2011
"Anthropologists say early human groups would have been more cooperative and willing to learn from one another than the chimpanzees from which human ancestors split about five million years ago."
