Homo

Other Names for Homo

• Humans

References

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Information on the Internet

• talk.origins archives:
  • Fossil Hominids
  • Fossil Hominids: Illustrations
• The Smithsonian Institution Human Origins Program. In search of what makes us human.
• Institute of Human Origins. Arizona State University.
• Human Origins. George Washington University.
• Journal of Human Evolution
• Flores Man Special. Nature special on the discovery of a new species of tiny human, which lived on the remote Indonesian island of Flores just 18,000 years ago.
• Skull fuels Homo erectus debate. BBC News.
• Ken Reeser's Hominid Evolution from Australopithecus to Cro-Magnon.
• Kevin L. Callahan's Anthropology Human Origins Website
• D. I. Loizos' Human Prehistory: An Exhibition
• Peter Brown's Australian & Asian Palaeoanthropology
• The Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution in China. Center for the Study of Chinese Prehistory.
• The Neanderthal Museum
• In Search of Human Origins. National Geographic Society.
• The Long Foreground: Human Prehistory. A student module from Wahington State University.
• Human Evolution. Handprint: Ancestral Lines.
• Hominid Evolution. Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
• Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man. Full text from the Secular Web Library.