Chapter 20: Evolving Toward Humans

Review Questions for Chapter 20

Introduction

• Links for Anthropology
• Glossary of Paleoanthropological Terms
• Phylogenetic Map of Fossil Hominid Skulls (Enhanced if Shockwave Plug-in is Available)
• Charles Darwin's Book: Descent of Man
• Timeline of Hominid Evolution
• Hunterian Museum's Guided Tour of First Humans
• Institute of Human Origins (IHO) Recommended Bibliography on Human Evolution
• CSU Chico's Skull Module

Australopithecines

• Lucy's Fossil Skeleton is in a Vault in Ethiopis but a Replica is at IHO and Questions are Answered Here including
  How do We Know She was a Hominid?
• The Story of Lucy: Australopithicus afarensis
• Lucy Had Short Legs but Walked Well
• R.J. Clarke's First Ever Discovery of a Well-preserved Skull and Associated Skeleton of an Australopithicus
• A More Recent .pdf Article by R.J. Clarke on
  Discovery of a Complete Arm and Hand of a 3.3 Ma Australopithecine Skeleton (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• Exciting New (April 2000) Discoveries of South African Australopithicus
• The Robust Autralopithicines: Australopithicus robustus
• Excellent Web Article by Nina Jablonski on Why Humans Became Bipedal

The Appearance of Homo

• More Links for Anthropology
• Prominent Hominid Fossils
• SARC (Stone Age Reference Collection)
• The First Human Species: Homo habilis
• The First Large-Brained Humans: Homo erectus
• A Cool Reconstruction of the Skull of Homo erectus (Requires Quicktime VR, 1662K)
• Earliest Members of Our Own Species: Homo sapiens
• Neanderthals: Homo sapiens neandertalensis
• Download Recent (3/30/00 and 10/8/98) Featured Articles on DNA Evidence for Distinctiveness of Neanderthals from Nature
• The Symbol User: Homo sapiens sapiens
• Pleistocene Art

Visit the Source of this Image at The Psychology, Culture, and Evolution Website

Outstanding Problems

• Is An African "Eve" the Mother of Us All?
• Introduction to Multiregional vs. Out of Africa Hypotheses
• New (12/7/00) Nature Article Presents Evidence Favoring Out of Africa Hypothesis
• More Technical Notes on Mitochondrial Eve Hypothesis and an Out-of-Africa Origin or Here or Here
• Dennis Etler's Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution in China including
  Pre-modern Chinese Hominids Used as Evidence for Multiregional Hypothesis
• News from the American Museum's Hall of Human Biology and Evolution
• Human Population Genetics Lab
• Maps of Worldwide Human Cultures
• Psychology and Human Evolution

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