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Geotimes
April 2005
Laura Stafford |
New Evidence for the Earliest Hominid Scientists say they have new evidence confirming that Toumai, a skull found in the deserts of Central Africa, is a new hominid species -- the oldest known to date.   |
Geotimes
June 2006
Megan Sever |
Found: One of Many Missing Human Links Researchers working in Ethiopia recently uncovered bones and teeth from one of many previously missing links in the hominid family tree. The newly found remains, researchers say, connect two well-known hominid species that are separated by 1 million years. |
Geotimes
September 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Controversy in the Cradle of Humankind East Africa indeed has much heritage to protect, as the region has been a hotspot for paleoanthropologists trying to understand the evolutionary relationships between early hominins since at least the 1950s. |
Smithsonian
February 2005
Lawrence M. Small |
From the Secretary - Our Adaptable Ancestors Recent discoveries of skull fragments and tools testify to the resourcefulness of early humans. |
Geotimes
March 2005
Megan Sever |
Mother Lode of Hominid Fossils Researchers excavating in Ethiopia have recently discovered the remains of nine individual hominids from the Early Pliocene, thus helping scientists understand more of the human evolution puzzle. |
Geotimes
June 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Penguins Endure Extinction Event Fossil and genetic evidence suggest that penguin ancestors living about 65 million years ago survived even more extreme conditions than they do today, including the impact that may have led to the demise of the dinosaurs. |
Smithsonian
November 2005 |
35 Who Made a Difference: Richard Leakey The leader of the Kenyan fossil-hunting Hominid Gang is still keenly interested in what makes us human as well as being deeply motivated to make the African continent work. |
Geotimes
December 2006 |
Top Paleontology News Stories of 2006 Filling in hominid gaps... On the hominid migration trail... Probing into fossil details... Evolution back in schools?... etc. |
Geotimes
March 2005
Laura Stafford |
New Neanderthal Knowledge Recent studies are making links -- both genetic and morphologic -- between Neanderthals and modern people, thus helping to put together the pieces of the human evolution puzzle. |
Smithsonian
February 2007
Eric Jaffe |
Meditate on It Could ancient campfire rituals have separated us from Neanderthals? |
Geotimes
May 2005
Megan Sever |
Inside the "Hobbit's" Head After studying the miniature hominid's skull and models of its brain, paleoanthropologists have determined that the Indonesian find is indeed a new species, not a Homo sapiens with a brain abnormality. |
Geotimes
February 2004
Megan Sever |
An African puzzle piece The time period from 32 to 24 million years ago has largely been a black hole for paleontologists studying East Africa's animals. Newly discovered large vertebrate fossils from Ethiopia, however, are providing evidence that not only was there a thriving and diverse population, but also that it continued long after. |
Scientific American
September 2009 |
Fossils for All: Science Suffers by Hoarding Paleontologists are overly possessive of human fossils. Science -- and the public -- suffers as a result |
