Archaic and transitional hominins
in Human Evolution
November 2005; p ublished online September 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Archaeology; Biological Sciences; Human Evolution. 3512 words.
‘Archaic and transitional hominins’ deals with creatures that almost certainly belong to the hominin clade, but which are still far from resembling modern humans. These hominins share more...
Early hominins: possible and probable
in Human Evolution
November 2005; p ublished online September 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Archaeology; Biological Sciences; Human Evolution. 2974 words.
‘Early hominins: possible and probable’ considers the ‘candidate’ taxa that have been suggested to be at the very base of the hominin clade. Hominin evolution in Africa began at a time of...
Finding our place
in Human Evolution
November 2005; p ublished online September 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Archaeology; Biological Sciences; Human Evolution. 5023 words.
‘Finding our place’ reviews the history of how philosophers and then scientists came to realize that humans are part of the natural world. Classical philosophers believed mankind evolved...
Fossil hominins: analysis and interpretation
in Human Evolution
November 2005; p ublished online September 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Archaeology; Biological Sciences; Human Evolution. 5568 words.
‘Fossil hominins: analysis and interpretation’ explains how researchers determine how many species there are within the hominin clade. The Linnean system provides a taxonomy into which new...
Fossil hominins: their discovery and context
in Human Evolution
November 2005; p ublished online September 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Archaeology; Biological Sciences; Human Evolution. 3839 words.
‘Fossil hominins: their discovery and context’ considers the lines of evidence that can be used to investigate what the hominin clade of the tree of life looks like. The chances of a dead...
Human Evolution
November 2005; p ublished online September 2013 .
Book. Subjects: Archaeology; Biological Sciences; Human Evolution. 144 pages.
Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction traces the history of paleoanthropology from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to the latest fossil finds. Although concentrating on the...
Introduction
in Human Evolution
November 2005; p ublished online September 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Archaeology; Biological Sciences; Human Evolution. 1286 words.
The ‘Introduction’ provides an overview of the scope of the field of paleoanthropology and the time period over which human evolution has taken place. All organisms can be fitted onto a...
Modern <i>Homo</i>
in Human Evolution
November 2005; p ublished online September 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Archaeology; Biological Sciences; Human Evolution. 4326 words.
‘Modern Homo’ considers evidence connected with the origin and subsequent migrations of anatomically modern humans, or Homo sapiens. It was originally thought that the transformation to...
Pre-modern Homo
in Human Evolution
November 2005; p ublished online September 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Archaeology; Biological Sciences; Human Evolution. 4228 words.
‘Pre-modern Homo’ looks at hominins researchers believe might be the earliest members of the genus Homo. Roughly 2 million years ago, fossils with a morphology more like modern humans than...
