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	Evolution of Modern Humans: Early Modern Homo sapiens
		It would seem from these dates that the location of initial modern Homo sapiens evolution and the direction of their dispersion from that area is obvious.
		David Frayer, of the University of Kansas, believes that a number of European fossils from the last 50,000 years have characteristics that are the result of archaic and modern Homo sapiens interbreeding.
		It was a partial skeleton of a 15-16 year old male Homo sapiens who lived about 30,000 years ago or a bit earlier.
	anthro.palomar.edu /homo2/mod_homo_4.htm (2685 words)

	Human evolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The modern field of paleoanthropology is said to have begun with the discoveries of Neanderthal “man” and evidence of other "cave men" in the 19th century.
		Though Darwin's first book on evolution did not touch on the question of human evolution—"light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history," was all Darwin wrote on the subject—it was clear to contemporary readers what was at stake.
		The word homo is simply the Latin for "person", chosen originally by Carolus Linnaeus in his classificatory system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Evolution_of_Homo_sapiens (1436 words)

	sphere - communicating technology worldwide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Homo Sapiens is now able to take control of both the speciation process and the move from carbon to silicon life forms.
		Homo sapiens is the first species to understand its own origins and, in doing so, is now able to see dimly its own future and consider manipulating it directly by adjusting its own genome.
		There are limits to Homo Sapiens, limits to the environmental stress planet earth can withstand, and as a species we may be close to extinction, to be replaced by a whole range of silicon life forms.
	www.bt.com /sphere/insights/pearson/human_evolution.htm (5361 words)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Evolution of Homo sapiens - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		According to the theory of evolution, the development of genus Homo spans over 2 million years although the fossil record is far from complete; as paleoanthropologists discover new evidence, models of human evolution change.
		The conventional view of human evolution states that humans evolved in inland savanna environments.
		Sometimes evolution to a being of pure spirit is imagined, sometimes continued speciation as humans fill various ecological niches, see adaptive radiation.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/hu/Human_evolution (588 words)

	Bodily structure of Homo sapiens (from human evolution) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The main stages of hominid evolution are represented by the australopithecines, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens.
		Homo sapiens is distinguished from other animals and from earlier hominid species by characteristics and habits such as bipedal stance and gait, brain capacity averaging about 1,350 cubic cm (82...
		The theory of evolution is one of the fundamental keystones of modern biological theory.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-67320?tocId=67320 (910 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Homo sapiens
		Homo sapiens, common name given to any individual of the species Homo sapiens and, by extension, to the entire species.
		Human Evolution, evolution of Homo sapiens and its close relatives.
		Archaeological evidence indicates that the area of modern-day South Africa was one of the cradles of human evolution.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Homo_sapiens.html (88 words)

	Human - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Biologists classify humans as a species (Homo sapiens) of primates and the only surviving species of the genus Homo.
		Homo neanderthalensis, Homo erectus) were also adept tool makers and there is some evidence that they may have had linguistic skills.
		While humans have all these characteristics, from the biological viewpoint the question "What single characteristic distinguishes humans from all other animals?" is an odd one: it is not a question that is usually asked of cats, dolphins, or song sparrows.
	www.indexlistus.de /keyword/Homo_sapiens.php (1604 words)

	Learn more about Evolution of Homo sapiens in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Since the mid-1990s, there has been a remarkable convergence of views about the evolution of Homo sapiens amongst paleoanthropologists, geneticists, and molecular biologists.
		The role of language in the story of human evolution remains largely a matter of speculation, but recent discoveries about the FOXP2 gene, "the first gene known to be involved in the development of speech and language"
		Stephan Cunnane of the University of Toronto has proposed the aquatic ape hypothesis, where humans developed in shore regions, but evidence supporting this is sparse and it is not widely accepted.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /e/ev/evolution_of_homo_sapiens_1.html (827 words)

	Evolution of Homo sapiens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The role of language in the story of human evolution remains largely a matter of speculation, but recent discoveries about the FOXP2 gene, "the first gene known to be involved in the development of speech and language"¹, suggest new lines of inquiry and raise hopes about progress in understanding the origins of speech and language.
		The Common Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and Bonobo (Pan paniscus) are sometimes grouped in the genus homo by biologists.
		It is an interesting fact that Linnaeus, who first grouped the chimpanzee (only one species was known at the time) in a different genus than Humans, later regretted this (in his view) artificial division.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/evolution_of_homo_sapiens_1 (1112 words)

	Hominid Species
		Homo habilis and all the australopithecines are found only in Africa, but erectus was wide-ranging, and has been found in Africa, Asia, and Europe.
		Homo antecessor was named in 1977 from fossils found at the Spanish cave site of Atapuerca, dated to at least 780,000 years ago, making them the oldest confirmed European hominids.
		Homo floresiensis was discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/homs/species.html (3114 words)

	Human Evolution
		Homo sapiens (archaic) provides the bridge between erectus and Homo sapiens sapiens during the period 200,000 to 500,000 years ago.
		Evolution had honed the species to fit the environment and was now in balance.
		Evolution, through the liberal application of death and hardship, had built a strong body and a sound mind by the time of the appearance of Homo sapiens sapiens.
	www.onelife.com /evolve/manev.html (8424 words)

	The African Replacement Model and Multi-Regional Model of Human Evolution
		There was, however, gene flow between Homo sapien populations during their evolution, thereby preserving the continuity of the species.
		However, the archeological record does not appear to show that Homo sapiens had any technological advantage, and there is no evidence of abrupt technological changes in Europe, as may be predicated by the African replacement model.
		For example, the one-million-year-old Homo erectus fossils found in Java have a prominent browridge — a distinctive characteristic of their modern contemporaries, such as the Australian aborigines (it is believed that their ancestors left Java for Australia approximately 60,000 years ago).
	www.scinet.cc /articles/human-evolution/models.html (1191 words)

	Energy and Human Evolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is the bioenergetic context in which Homo sapiens evolved, and it accounts for both the wild growth of human population and its imminent collapse.
		Homo habilis and his fellows were furtive little scavengers who picked what they could from carcasses that leopards left behind and rounded out their diet with fruits and nuts and roots (see Binford, 1981; Brain, 1981).
		The evolution of a species like Homo sapiens may be an integral part of the life process, anywhere in the universe it happens to occur.
	dieoff.org /page137.htm (6436 words)

	Evolution of Homo sapiens Article, EvolutionHomosapiens Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The role of language in the story of human evolution remains largely a matter ofspeculation, but recent discoveries about the FOXP2 gene, "the first gene known to beinvolved in the development of speech and language"¹, suggest new lines of inquiry and raise hopes about progress inunderstanding the origins of speech and language.
		Homo heidelbergensis (Heidelberg Man), alsoproposed as Homo sapiens heidelbergensis and Homo sapiens paleohungaricus.
		Sometimes evolution to a being of pure spirit is imagined, sometimes continued speciation as humans fill various ecological niches ; see adaptiveradiation.
	www.anoca.org /erectus/dna/evolution_of_homo_sapiens.html (1048 words)

	Homo sapiens
		The evolution of Homo sapiens commenced approximately 200 000 - 300 000 years ago.
		The Homo sapiens structure is similar to that of the Homo erectus, yet Homo sapiens skulls were slightly rounder and larger.
		The Homo sapiens brain capacity averaged an impressive 1 350 cc, surprisingly the same size of todays humans.
	park.org /Canada/Museum/man/sapiens.html (66 words)

	The Future of Homo Sapiens, The Future of Human Evolution
		Such evolution is however slow for such a large and wide-spread species as the human.
		After that, Homo Sapiens continued to live as a hunter-gatherer until about 10 000 years ago, when agriculture suddenly began and rapidly changed the prosperity of Homo Sapiens.
		There are a large number of books about evolution and human evolution and about how humans were formed by evolution, and this is important for understanding what will happen in the future.
	web4health.info /en/aux/homo-sapiens-future.html (2217 words)

	Tetrahedral Man
		The evolution of Homo sapiens took place over many millions of years and, while some parts of it are better known than others, our knowledge of it has advanced to the point where it is possible to point to significant milestones and associate approximate dates with them.
		The various species that were involved in the evolution of man over the last 5 to 8 million years may be extinct in the sense that today no living purebred examples exist, but the genetic code of those species is almost completely intact.
		It now seems highly likely that Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis never interbred and that Homo sapiens had marginal competitive advantages that caused a slow decline in Neanderthal populations over a period of about 20,000 years that ended in their extinction some 30 KYA.
	lonestar.texas.net /~lochness/darwin/content_2.html (1496 words)

	Evolution: Fact or fiction? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We hear of the evolution of TB for example to a point where drugs that use to be effective now are not because the organism has evolved to a organism that is no longer effected.
		However, when it comes to the evolution of Homo sapiens and other higher plants and animals, though the evidence seems clear as to how these organisms evolved, science never lists anything as fact unless it can be clear demonstrated.
		The evolution of higher organisms is a theory, because the facts are not available to be absolutely sure, but there is a growing amount of facts that clearly suggest that evolution of all living things did occur.
	www.newton.dep.anl.gov /askasci/gen99/gen99291.htm (536 words)

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		The evolution of modern humans, classified as Homo sapiens sapiens, has always been a controversial topic in the field of Paleontology.
		Because of the overlapping of some of these dating periods, the beginning location of the evolution of modern humans from archaic Homo sapiens is unclear.
		The abruptness of the appearance of Homo sapiens sapiens in Europe, 50,000 years ago, can be accounted for by their migration into the region from another area, possibly Southwest Asia or North Africa, and the interbreeding that may have occurred with the Neandertals they shared the area with for another 10,000 years or more.
	www.priweb.org /ed/ICTHOL/ICTHOL04papers/83.htm (1002 words)

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		Second, human evolution did not occur as a ladder with a series of steps leading directly from an ancestral hominoid to Homo sapiens.
		The evolution of bipedal posture—upright posture and two-legged walking—is associated with key skeletal modifications seen in early hominid fossils.
		According to the replacement hypothesis, all of the world’s populations diverged from anatomically modern Homo sapiens that evolved from an African H. erectus population and then migrated throughout the world.
	www.4j.lane.edu /~sanderson/Documents/Ch34WordLectureOutline.doc (1963 words)

	Evolutionary Threads
		Because evolution arises from the ostensibly random entropic nature of mutation itself, it is one of the fundamental processes creating order from disorder, utilizing the incoming free-energy of the Sun's radiation to form an open, far-from-equilibrium system at the edge of chaos.
		Evolution as a process is a combination of opportunistic mutational change and selective advantage in an overwhelming sea of deleterious accidents, forming a creeping doorway.
		It may even be that evolution is a complemenataion between fundamental bifurcations of type, such as that between the proterstomes and deuterostomes and the more accidental adventitious aspects of evolution which have resulted in the unusual alkaloids such as vincristine found in individual species.
	www.dhushara.com /book/evol/evol.htm (5136 words)

	HumanEvol.org ::
		Australopithecus afarensis and Australopithecus africanus wasthought to the direct ancestors of the genus Homo, but because teh fossil record is not complete it is difficult to be sure.
		Homo habilis was present in East Africa almost two million years ago and was the first hominid to show significant expansion of the brain, with a cranial capacity of almost seven hundred fifty cc.
		Archaic Homo sapiens continued to change gradually, developing a larger brain and becoming bigger and more gracile during the passage of time, until Homo sapiens sapiens emerged, the modern human.
	www.freewebs.com /decade/fromaustralopithecinestoh.htm (623 words)

	Wikinfo \| Human
		Similarly, other animals often have simple methods of communication, but the degree to which humans create and use complex grammar and abstract concepts in language has not been proven to exist in any other species, despite much effort to find it.
		Note, however, that the extinct species of the Homo genus (eg, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo erectus) were also adept tool users and there is some evidence that they may have had linguistic skills.
		While humans have all these characteristics, from the biological viewpoint "what distinguishes humans from all other animals?" is an odd question: there's no one thing that makes cats, dolphins, or song sparrows unique.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Human (1222 words)

	African Legacy: Fossils plug gap in human origins: Science News Online, June 14, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		sapiens individuals, more than 600 stone artifacts, and hippopotamus bones bearing stone-tool incisions made by humans either killing the animals or scavenging their carcasses.
		sapiens evolved first in eastern Africa or resulted from the mixing of archaic populations across Africa, adds anthropologist Christopher Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, a backer of the out-of-Africa theory.
		Stratigraphic, chronological and behavioural contexts of Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopa.
	www.sciencenews.org /20030614/fob1.asp (696 words)

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