Human Evolution Multimedia

Students watched a video clip: Did Humans Evolve? The video clip can be found at this web page:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/educators/teachstuds/svideos.html

Students also watched this video clip: Becoming a Fossil. The video can be found at this web page:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/04/3/l_043_01.html

Human evolution was demonstrated by observing this online activity:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/evolution/

This website ( http://www.becominghuman.org/ ) and note taking sheet ( http://www.middletownhs.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=41979&type=u&rn=4264204 ) are for an extra credit activity.

Here is an interesting article, Neaderthals Conquered Humans, Why Not Us?
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/09/neanderthal-mammoth.html

Another interesting article 05/19/09, 47-million-year-old human link revealed
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090519/sc_afp/usgermanynorwayarcheologysciencelead
Here is the original article that appeared in the Public Library of Science:
Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene of Messel in Germany: Morphology and Paleobiology
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0005723
This online National Geographic article contains a video clip that tells about Ida, the 47-million-year-old fossil
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090519-missing-link-found.html
The video clip is also available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLilqm6GxrA

This online article describes the genetics/evolution involved with lactose intolerance and adult milk drinkers: Sixty percent of adults can't digest milk
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2009-08-30-lactose-intolerance_N.htm?imw=Y
The original article about adult milk drinkers can be found online:
http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1000491

Here is the National Geographic online article about the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor (as of October 1, 2009):
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091001-oldest-human-skeleton-ardi-missing-link-chimps-ardipithecus-ramidus.html
This is the link for the AAAS video about the analysis of the Ardipithecus ramidus skeleton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC9aIth1ah4&feature=related
This web site has a video about the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyx-ryWHB2s
Here is a song about Ardipithecus ramidus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-DCcrLIcL4

DNA suggests Siberian find could be humans' long-lost relative (March 24, 2010)
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100324/full/464472a.html

Australopithecus sediba: A New Species of Homo-Like Australopith from South Africa (April 9, 2010)
http://www.sciencemag.org/extra/sediba/
9-Year-Old Kid Literally Stumbled on Stunning Fossils of a New Hominid
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/04/08/9-year-old-kid-literally-stumbled-on-stunning-fossils-of-a-new-hominid/

Sequencing The Neanderthal Genome
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/328/5979/710

First Direct Evidence of Chalcolithic Footwear from the Near Eastern Highlands
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0010984

The Evolution of Blue Eyes - Article - Darwin's theory of natural selection evolves

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/08/science/sci-evolution8

All Non-Africans are Part Neanderthal - Article - Genetic confirmation that our ancestors interbred

http://news.discovery.com/human/genetics-neanderthal-110718.html

Smithsonian Magazine's article on Evo-tourism
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/evotourism/Evotourism.html

A phylogenetic tree of human evolution
http://www.nabt.org/blog/2010/02/18/digging-up-our-family-tree/