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Ancestral Humans: Understanding the Human Family Tree
Blog Roll and Web Links
Reading anthro blogs is a great way to keep up with the latest developments and discoveries in the field, to get a sense of the most important debates and controversies and to find out what anthropologists think about world events. There are literally hundreds of blogs maintained by professional anthropologists from all the subfields (a quite comprehensive list can be found at http://anthropologyreport.com/anthropology-blogs-2014/).
- Human Evolution: Greg Laden’s Blog (http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/tag/human-evolution/).
Hosted by Science Blogs, a comprehensive site that has many bloggers, the writings of Greg Laden on human evolution cover many newsworthy developments in human origins research.
- John Hawks Weblog (http://johnhawks.net/).
The prominent paleoanthropologist from the University of Wisconsin, John Hawks, writes in this blog about human origins, human genetics, and evolution. In addition to sharing insights from his research and commenting on the research and findings of others, there is a link on the site to his YouTube channel, which has many interesting and relevant interviews, presentations, and visual materials for use in courses.
- What Does It Mean to Be Human? (http://humanorigins.si.edu/).
The website and blog of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, this site provides detailed overviews of different human ancestral species as well as up-to-date news items related to human origins (check out “What’s Hot in Human Origins”).
- National Geographic Genographic Project (https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com).
A project that is collecting and analyzing DNA from around the world to better understand human relationships and origins.
Other Web Resources
The Oxford Bibliographies site includes an entry on bioarchaeology, bone histology, human evolution, Louis Leakey, paleontology