In the News . . .

• New Theory Explains Why Homo Sapiens Outlived the Neanderthals -- INVERSE (31 July 2018)
  
  
• Hall of Human Origins [K-12] -- American Museum of Natural History
  
  
• Thigh Bone Points to Unexpectedly Long Survival of Ancient Human Ancestors -- Guardian (17 December 2015)
  
  
• Why Are humans Unique? It’s the Small Things That Count -- Conversation (01 November 2015)
  
  
• Neanderthals ‘Kept Our Early Ancestors Out of Europe’ -- Guardian (17 October 2015)
  
  
• Trove of teeth from cave represents oldest modern humans in China -- Science (14 October 2015)
  
  
• Teeth from China Reveal Early Human Trek Out of Africa -- Nature (14 October 2015)
  
  
• Study: Eurasian Farmers Migrated to Africa 3,000 Years Ago -- New York Times (08 October 2015)
  
  
• Africans carry huge amount of European DNA -- Telegraph (08 October 2015)
  
  
• First DNA Extracted From an Ancient African Skeleton Shows Widespread Mixing With Eurasians -- Science (08 October 2015)
  
  
• Fossil teeth place humans in Asia '20,000 years early' -- BBC News (14 October 2015)
  
  
• Why are we the only species still alive? -- BBC News (29 September 2013)
  
  
• 12 Theories of How We Became Human, and Why They’re All Wrong -- National Geographic News (12 September 2015)
  
  
• Where Is the Birthplace of Humankind? South Africa and East Africa Both Lay Claims -- National Geographic News (11 September 2015)
  
  
• Skull discovery suggests location where humans first had sex with Neanderthals -- Guardian (28 January 2015)
  
  
• Humans and Neandertals Likely Interbred in Middle East -- Science (28 January 2015)
  
  
• Big-Toothed Fossil May Be Primitive New Human -- Discovery News (27 January 2015)
  
  
• Is This a New Species of Human? -- BBC Earth (22 January 2015)
  
  
• Middle Pleistocene Hominin Teeth from Longtan Cave, Hexian, China -- PLoS ONE (31 December 2014)
  
  
• Is this a new species of human? -- BBC (22 January 2015)
  
  
• Early Humans Brought to Life in Exhibit: Photos -- Discovery News (18 November 2014)
  
  
• What We Learned About Human Origins in 2013 -- LiveScience (28 December 2013)
  
  
• Discovery of oldest human DNA in Spanish cave sheds light on evolution -- Guardian (04 December 2013)
  
  
• Leg bone gives up oldest human DNA -- BBC News (04 Decem ber 2013)
  
  
• Inbreeding Common in Early Humans -- Discovery News (19 March 2013)
  
  
• Half-Million-Year-Old Human Jawbone Found -- Discovery News (07 February 2013)
  
  
• New Radiometric Ages for the BH-1 Hominin from Balanica (Serbia): Implications for Understanding the Role of the Balkans in Middle Pleistocene Human Evolution -- PLoS ONE (06 February 2013)
  
  
• The Mysterious Affair at Kents Cavern -- Science (03 August 2012)
  
  
• 'Earliest' evidence of modern human culture found -- BBC News (31 July 2012)
  
  
• Old tools — and poison — push back Stone Age 20,000 years -- MSNBC (30 July 2012)
  
  
• Ancient Hunter-Gatherers Kept in Touch -- Science (28 June 2012)
  
  
• Cavemen bones yield oldest modern human DNA -- MSNBC (28 June 2012)
  
  
• How Homo Sapiens Became 'Masters Of The Planet' -- NPR (06 April 2012)
  
  
• Defining ‘human’: new fossils provide more questions than answers -- Past Horizons (16 March 2012)
  
  
• Human fossils hint at new species -- BBC News (14 March 2012)
  
  
• How human skulls have changed over the centuries -- BBC News (14 March 2012)
  
  
• Human Remains from the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition of Southwest China Suggest a Complex Evolutionary History for East Asians -- PLoS ONE (14 March 2012)
  
  
• Cave Fossil Find: New Human Species or "Nothing Extraordinary"? -- National Geographic News (14 March 2012)
  
  
• Kents Cavern: Inside the Cave of Stone-Age Secrets -- Telegraph (20 December 2011)
  
  
• How has the human skull evolved? -- Past Horizons (28 December 2011)
  
  
• What We Learned About Our Human Ancestors in 2011 -- Live Science (20 December 2011)
  
  
• Grass Mattress Was A Stone Age Bed And Breakfast -- NPR (12 December 2011)
  
  
• 77,000-Year-Old Evidence for 'Bedding' and Use of Medicinal Plants Uncovered at South African Rock Shelter -- ScienceDaily (08 Dcember 2011)
  
  
• Earliest evidence for modern humans in Europe identified -- Planet Earth (03 November 2011)
  
  
• Earliest Known European Died in Torquay -- Telegraph (02 November 2011)
  
  
• Early Humans' Route Out of Africa 'Confirmed' -- BBC News (02 November 2011)
  
  
• Teeth and jaw are from 'earliest Europeans' -- BBC News (02 November 2011)
  
  
• Skull Points to a More Complex Human Evolution in Africa -- BBC News (16 September 2011)
  
  
• Bid to rename Homo sapiens called unwise -- MSNBC (17 August 2011)
  
  
• Human Ancestor Older Than Previously Thought; Finding Offers New Insights Into Evolution -- ScienceDaily (29 June 2011)
  
  
• Early Human Fossils Unearthed in Ukraine -- BBCNews (20 June 2011)
  
  
• Cavemen, Cave Bears Battled Over Turf -- Discovery News (26 April 2011)
  
  
• Earliest Humans Not So Different from Us, Research Suggests -- EurekAlert (14 February 20112011)
  
  
• Ancient Teeth Raise New Questions About Origins of Modern Humans -- ScienceDaily (11 February 2011)
  
  
• Big Babies Helped Shape Early Human Societies -- NPR (10 January 2011)
  
  
• World's Oldest Human Remains? -- Discovery News (28 December 2010)
  
  
• Ancient humans interbred with us -- BBCNews (22 December 2010)
  
  
• Bone Flute Is Oldest Instrument, Study Says -- National Geographic News (24 June 2009)
  
  
• Humans 80,000 Years Older Than Previously Thought? -- National Geographic News (03 December 2008)

From Anthropology World News -- Texas A&M Anthropology

From Anthropology World News -- Texas A&M Anthropology

From Anthropology in the News, Texas A&M Anthropology

Human Line 'Nearly Split in Two' BBC News (4/24/08)

• Early Human Populations Evolved Separately for 100,000 Years National Geographic Society (4/24/08)
• After Near Extinction, Humans Split Into Isolated Bands National Geographic News (4/24/08)
• Study Says Near Extinction Threatened People 70,000 Years Ago New York Times (4/24/08)
• Dawn of Human Matrilineal Diversity EurekAlert (4/24/08)
• Humans Had Brush With Extincton Discovery News (4/24/08)
• Study Says Near Extinction Threatened People 70,00 Years Ago Wired (4/24/08)
• Phew! Humans May Have Faced Extinction MSNBC (4/24/08)
• Humans 'Almost Became Extinct in 70,000 BC' Telegraph (4/25/08)
• Early Human Populations Evolved Separately For 100,000 Years Science Daily (4/25/08)
• Humanity's Brush With Extinction Los Angeles Times (4/26/08)
• The Dawn of Human Matrilineal Diversity American Journal of Human Genetics

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• Study: Early Humans Threw Clambakes CNN News (10/17/07)
• Researchers Find Earliest Evidence for Modern Human Behavior in South Africa EurekAlert (10/17/07)
• Early Humans Wore Makeup, Ate Mussels Discovery News (10/17/07)
• Early Humans Knew Their Way Around Makeup, Tools and Shellfish Los Angeles Times (10/20/07)
• African Cave Yields Earliest Proof of Beach Living National Geographic News (10/17/07)
• Early Humans Used Makeup and Ate Seafood Telegraph (10/17/07)
• Life Was a Beach for Early Humans MSNBC (10/17/07)
• Early Seafood, Makeup Found in S. Africa Yahoo (10/17/07)
• Mussel Power: Did Seafood Encourage 'Out of Africa' Exodus? Yahoo (10/17/07)
• Early Modern Humans Had a Taste for Seafood New Scientist (10/17/07)
• Who Ate the First Oyster? Cave May Hold an Answer NPR (10/18/07)
• Key Human Traits Tied to Shellfish Remains New York Times (10/18/07)

General Information

• Homo sapiens -- Lorraine Dallmeier
• Homo sapiens: Earliest forms of our own species -- WSU
• Homo sapiens sapiens: The Symbol User -- WSU

Images

• Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence in 3D -- Phillip Walker and Ed Hagen
• "Old Man of Cro-Magnon" -- American Museum of Natural History