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
However, the PBS video has become somewhat outdated.  So now, we watch this video about human evolution:

Great Transitions: The Origin of Humans — HHMI BioInteractive Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjr0R0jgct4

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 sheets are for an extra credit activity.

There is a list on hominin species and information about them on this web site:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/species.html

Here is an interesting article, Neanderthals 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/

Updated information on how Australopithecus sediba walked, moved around, and ate:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130411142719.htm

Sequencing The Neanderthal Genome
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/328/5979/710
Research raises doubts about whether modern humans and Neanderthals interbred
http://discovermagazine.com/2013/march/14-interbreeding-neanderthals

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

Blue-eyed humans have a single common ancestor
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080130170343.htm

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/

The Human Journey: Migration Routes
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/human-journey/?fb_action_ids=401681596643087&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%5B446108608764426%5D&action_type_map=%5B%22og.likes%22%5D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D

Male common ancestry and the Y chromosome
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23240-the-father-of-all-men-is-340000-years-old.html

Mutation rates help estimate the age of our common ancestry
First migration from Africa less than 95,000 years ago: Ancient hunter-gatherer DNA challenges theory of early out-of-Africa migrations

Khoe-San peoples diverged before 'out-of-Africa' migration of modern humans

"The largest genomic study ever conducted among Khoe and San groups reveals that these groups from southern Africa are descendants of the earliest diversification event in the history of all humans -- some 100,000 years ago, well before the 'out-of-Africa' migration of modern humans."

Neanderthal fossils found in Greek cave suggest ancient humans and Neanderthals shared a common region with each other
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/02/neanderthal-fossils-greek-cave-ancient-humans_n_2992294.html?utm_hp_ref=science#slide=581869
More on Neanderthals and Homo species interbreeding with each other
http://evoanth.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/ancient-dna-reveals-how-often-and-when-humans-neanderthals-interbred/

Great ape genetic diversity and population history
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12228.html

Neanderthals may have taught modern humans to use tools
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/08/08/1302730110.full.pdf+html

A new fossil skull find has the discovers suggesting that perhaps Homo species are variants of one species, Homo erectus
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/17/world/europe/ancient-skull-human-evolution/index.html
http://johnhawks.net/weblog/fossils/lower/dmanisi/d4500-lordkipanidze-2013.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=560hiKxz-eg

Human migration routes
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/human-journey/

What did Neanderthals eat?
http://evoanth.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/neanderthals-ate-haggis/

Hominin footprints from early Pleistocene deposits at Happisburgh, UK - The oldest known footprints outside of Africa
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0088329

The Oldest Neanderthal DNA Found
http://www.livescience.com/50458-oldest-neanderthal-dna-found.html

Fossil trove adds a new limb to the family tree - Homo naledi
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150910131807.htm

The Google Doodle and Lucy  11/24/2015
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/google-doodle/12013826/Who-is-Lucy-the-Australopithecus.html

Why Aren't Apes evolving into Humans - A Science Explanation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/27/dear-science-why-arent-apes-evolving-into-humans/?ref=

University of Texas at Austin. "Cracking the coldest case: How Lucy, the most famous human ancestor, died." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 29 August 2016.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160829140417.htm

The earliest know human ancestor lived 450 million years ago
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170130111008.htm

An African American Paternal Lineage
Adds an Extremely Ancient Root to the
Human Y Chromosome Phylogenetic Tree  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130305145821.htm

September 4, 2019. Hanegraef, Hester.  How the skull of humanity's oldest ancestor is changing our understanding of human evolution.
https://theconversation.com/how-the-skull-of-humanitys-oldest-known-ancestor-is-changing-our-understanding-of-evolution-122926

Bag-like sea creature was humans' oldest known ancestor: A tiny sea creature identified from fossils found in China may be the earliest known step on an evolutionary path that eventually led to the emergence of humans: Researchers have identified traces of what they believe is the earliest known prehistoric ancestor of humans -- a microscopic, bag-like sea creature, which lived about 540 million years ago.

Neanderthals had the capacity to perceive and produce human speech

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210301112358.htm

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