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	Hall of Human Biology and Evolution - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Hall of Human Biology and Evolution, originally known under the name "Hall of the Age of Man", is located on the first floor of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
		The displays trace the story of Homo sapiens, displaying the path of human evolution and examining the origins of human creativity.
		The hall features four life-size dioramas of the human predecessors Australopithecus afarensis, Homo ergaster, Neanderthal, and Cro-Magnon, showing each species in its habitat and demonstrating the behaviors and capabilities that scientists believe it had.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Hall_of_Human_Biology_and_Evolution (204 words)

	Rediscovering Biology - Unit 9 Human Evolution: Expert Interview Transcripts
		Australopithecus is a genus of an extinct human precursor.
		Beginning at about the 1950s the received wisdom in paleoanthropolgy was that human evolution had been a sort of single-minded slog from primitiveness to perfection, if you wish, without a lot of different species being involved and with species tending to evolve from one into another in a kind of a linear fashion.
		Human evolution is a wonderful example of adaptive radiation in the sense that it seems now that as soon as early hominids had emerged, early putative bipeds had likewise emerged.
	www.learner.org /channel/courses/biology/units/humev/experts/tattersall.html (3578 words)

	Review: Humanity's evolution through time and space - 24 April 1993 - New Scientist
		When the museum opened its first Hall of Human Biology exhibit in 1961, it was a pioneering achievement.
		For the first time a global perspective on humans as animals was assembled, and the exhibit remained one of the museum's most popular attractions.
		And plans for a major new hall on human origins at the National Museum of Natural History (the Smithsonian) in Washington DC is embroiled in internal politics and is unlikely to become a reality this century.
	www.newscientist.com /article/mg13818705.100-review-humanitys-evolution-through-time-and-space-.html (1089 words)

	Rediscovering Biology - Unit 9 Human Evolution: Expert Interview Transcripts
		Australopithecus is a genus of an extinct human precursor.
		Beginning at about the 1950s the received wisdom in paleoanthropolgy was that human evolution had been a sort of single-minded slog from primitiveness to perfection, if you wish, without a lot of different species being involved and with species tending to evolve from one into another in a kind of a linear fashion.
		Human evolution is a wonderful example of adaptive radiation in the sense that it seems now that as soon as early hominids had emerged, early putative bipeds had likewise emerged.
	www.acpbchannel.com /channel/courses/biology/units/humev/experts/tattersall.html (3578 words)

	Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Human Evolution
		Human thought, mood, and action are explored on many levels based on insights from the social sciences and the humanities.
		Humanity’s Descent: The Consequences of an Ecological Instability.
		Introduces earth history, evolution, genetics, anatomy, primates, and human evolution with an easy to understand text and diagrams that are an effective teaching aid.
	www.si.edu /resource/faq/nmnh/evolve.htm (1912 words)

	Permanent Exhibitions \| American Museum of Natural History
		he story of Homo sapiens is the topic of this hall, which explores human biology and anatomy, traces the path of human evolution, and examines the origins of human creativity.
		It is the only major exhibit in the country to present an in-depth investigation of the mysteries of human evolution.
		These beautiful limestone carvings of horses were made nearly 26,000 years ago and represent what is believed to be the earliest artistic expression of humans.
	www.amnh.org /exhibitions/permanent/other/evolution.html (174 words)

	Delphyn's Insanity: My Literature: Evolution
		Evolution does not contradict the existence of God, it merely shows us some of the ways in which he achieved his objectives.
		The evolution of humans is also lacking in a distinct transitional ‘link’, but similarities show that apes and humans have common ancestors.
		Separate ancestry for man and apes is unrealistic, as evolution has been proven to occur in man’s past and it is biased to apply the theories of evolution to all animals except man. Earth’s geology cannot be explained by mere catastrophism.
	members.cox.net /idyllic-insanity/lit-evolution.shtml (2831 words)

	A Progressive, a Brontosaurus, and the Science of Intelligent Design
		I tell her that we are descended from these early people, that these early humans are, in a sense, our relatives.
		And as I watch her struggle with the idea of human evolution, I wonder whether I should have offered her a simpler explanation - perhaps something akin to babies and storks.
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	www.commondreams.org /views05/0804-21.htm (911 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/American Museum of Natural History
		The Museum boasts habitat groups of African, Asian and North American mammals, the full-size model of a Blue Whale suspended in the Milstein Family Hall of Ocean Life (reopened in 2003), the 62-foot Haida carved and painted war canoe from the Pacific Northwest, and the "Star of India", the largest blue sapphire in the world.
		The Spitzer Hall of Human Origins, formerly the The Hall of Human Biology and Evolution
		Throughout the fossil halls the nodes are carefully marked along the evolutionary path and these nodes alert us to the appearance of new traits representing whole new branches of the evolutionary tree.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/American_Museum_of_Natural_History (2665 words)

	Darwinism, darwin,talk.origins,talk-origins,talk origins, darwinism, darwinist, neodarwinism, ...
		Simpson plainly believed that his evidence was incontrovertible because he wrote, 'The history of the horse family is still one of the clearest and most convincing for showing that organisms really have evolved.
		While human DNA is contained in 23 pairs of chromosomes, the humble goldfish has more than twice as many, at 47.
		C.H. Waddington, professor of biology at Edinburgh University wrote; "Natural selection, which was at first considered as though it were a hypothesis that was in need of experimental or observational confirmation, turns out on closer inspection to be a tautology, a statement of an inevitable although previously unrecognised relation.
	www.alternativescience.com /darwinism.htm (2115 words)

	Human Biology and Evolution - ANT 203Y, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
		Human Biology and Evolution - ANT 203Y, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
		Biological anthropology is the study of the biological nature of humans, our evolutionary history, and our place in the diversity of life.
		These are questions addressed by biological anthropologists, the researchers who study human biology and evolution.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /anthropology/Faculty/Begun/old203main.htm (604 words)

	BS12310 - HUMAN BIOLOGY & HEALTH
		This module lays the foundations in human biology and health for more advanced modules in years 2 and 3, fulfils requirements of academic progression, and provides stand-alone grounding in an interesting and popular biological discipline.
		This module covers the general biology of humans, particularly in relation to health and well-being, and disease resulting from both biotic and abiotic influences.
		The lectures cover the organization and development of the human body, and include fertilisation, embryology, development, ageing, evolution, blood, circulatory system, immune system, psychology, skeletal system, muscular system, respiratory system, urinary system, reproductive system, nervous system, sensory system, endocrine system, digestive system and nutrition.
	www.aber.ac.uk /modules/2006/BS12310.html (406 words)

	Waypath - Topic Stream: Society > Human Evolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Humans and chimps have evolved separately since splitting from a common ancestor about 6 million years ago, and their DNA remains highly similar -- about 96 percent to almost 99 percent identical, depending on how the comparison is made.
		But the amazing thing is that fossils of human ancestors were also found less than a half-mile (1 kilometer) from the lake shore where the chimp fossils were buried and, most important, they were found in sediments of the same age as the chimp teeth about half a million years old.
		Multi-regional evolution proposes that present-day populations worldwide are the descendants of in situ evolution after an initial dispersal of Homo erectus from Africa during the Lower Pleistocene.
	www.waypath.com /topic/humanevolution.html (2669 words)

	AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A diorama of Australopithecus afarensis and other human predecessors showing each species in its habitat and demonstrating the behaviors and capabilities that scientists believe it had is in the Hall_of_Human_Biology_and_Evolution at the American_Museum_of_Natural_History in New_York_City.
		One of the most striking characteristics possessed by Lucy was that she had a small skull, bipedal knee structure, and molars and front teeth of human (rather than great ape) style and relative size, but a small skull and small body.
		This was because during the period 1950-1970 it was believed that the development of a brain larger than an ape brain was the trigger that caused apes to evolve into humans.
	www.bellabuds.com /Australopithecus_afarensis (706 words)

	Artzar - Ian Tattersall Interview by Courtney Shedd
		Tattersall is the author of numerous books and articles on human evolution as well as an authority on lemurs.
		Exhibits in the Hall include a 3 million year old skeleton named "Lucy" along with an evocative diorama whose construction was supervised by Dr. Tattersall, examples of the first human implements and architecture, and a replica of the 30,000 year old cave paintings of Lascaux, France.
		It is clearly something in the human lineage that has predisposed humans to larger brain size, but we don't even know what the exact pattern was.
	www.artzar.com /content/tattersall (1581 words)

	Human Evolution (Science Tracer Bullet - Science Reference Services, Library of Congress)
		An extension of An annotated bibliography of the fossil mammals of Africa, 1742-1950 by A. Hopwood and J. Hollyfield.
		The anatomy, physiology, acoustics and perception of speech: essential elements in analysis of the evolution of human speech.
		Implications of early hominid labyrinthine morphology for evolution of human bipedal locomotion.
	www.loc.gov /rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/humanevolvtb.html (2540 words)

	Permanent Hall Highlights \| American Museum of Natural History
		n this hall, visitors can explore the evolution of humans, from our earliest ancestors to present day.
		Highlighted in the hall is a hologram of a complete woman viewed from the inside out, from her lungs, to her stomach, to her small and large intestines.
		The hall also provides information in a variety of formats, including a multi-media Electronic Newspaper, sponsored by The New York Times Company Foundation, presenting information on new discoveries and current debates in the study of aging, the human brain and the origins of humans.
	www.amnh.org /exhibitions/hall_hilites/hall1.html (89 words)

	Origins of Humankind (Human Evolution, Paleoanthropology, Physical Anthropology, Prehistoric Man) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This newly updated text chronicles a history of human evolution starting three and a half million years ago, when two upright figures walked together across the Laetoli desert in Tanzania, and their footsteps were captured forever in volcanic ash.
		Based on the new Hall of Human Biology and Evolution at the American Museum of Natural History, the most extensive exhibition of the subject ever designed, The Human Odyssey examines how both significant fossil finds and startling new theories have been used by scientists to trace the path of human evolution.
		Here too are the bold theories and controversies that have influenced the field of evolution, from the idea of natural selection put forth by Charles Darwin to the new role that DNA analysis plays in fossil research.
	www.esimpletech.com /origins/books/book.asp?movie_id=51 (291 words)

	Rediscovering Biology - Expert Interview Transcripts
		Eisen is a professor at the Department of Biology at the University of Oregon.
		Patel is a professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago, and an associate investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
		Postlethwait is a professor of biology at the University of Oregon, Institute of Neuroscience.
	www.acpbchannel.com /channel/courses/biology/units/experts_all.html (3307 words)

	- d. scott gregory : Splendor in the Tar Pits -
		It replaced the previous Hall of the Biology of Man, built in 1959, which exhibited isolated fossils and skulls in glass cases.
		Spielberg's assorted one - liners on evolution, from "the dinosaurs had their chance millions of years ago and they blew it" to "creation is a matter of free will," also show an underlying struggle between the natural female destiny to reproduce and masculinized attempts at containment.
		None of the fossils displayed in the hall of Human Biology and Evolution are authentic artifacts, but casts from the originals, fabricated by museum staff.
	www.dscottgregory.com /splendor.asp (1885 words)

	American Museum of Natural History \| R e s o u r c e s -for- L e a r n i n g
		Background information is linked to two areas of the curriculum: human biology and human evolution.
		Evolution is one of the most interesting theories in modern biology, able to explain two seemingly contradictory ideas.
		Track down the evolution of humans by locating where key human remains have been found.
	www.amnh.org /education/resources/halls/human_biology/index.php (198 words)

	Free-Essays.us - Evolution Through Natural Selection
		This is an example of evolution through natural selection; where somewhere along the life span of the statement, it was modified, and the modified statement was passed on to form a new statement.
		This hall concentrated on human evolution and how certain traits arose through successful generation—such as the change in the skeletal system as a result of walking upright.
		However, these two halls do not have much in common with our line of ancestry except for the fact that a backbone and brain case are present; any other things in common with our lineage are but minor details.
	www.free-essays.us /dbase/d2/skx262.shtml (699 words)

	American Museum of Natural History \| R e s o u r c e s -for- L e a r n i n g
		After your visit to the Hall of Human Origins, be sure to stop by these seven other Museum exhibits.
		Yet, humans are now a primary cause of extinctions—a role previously reserved for asteroids, climate changes, and other global-scale phenomena.
		Get a hands-on look at the evolution of a species and the growth of a dominant coloration pattern with this activity designed to complement the museum's Hall of Ocean Life.
	www.amnh.org /education/resources/rfl.php?set=b&topic_id=3&subtopic_id=42&orderby=gl_lo&startRow=0&intro=false (662 words)

	Russell Ciochon -- African Emergence and Asian Dispersals of Homo
		Evolution of the genus Homo from Australopithecus seems to be linked with global climate changes between 2 and 3 million years ago.
		Crucial aspects of hominid evolution and dispersal evidently relate to global climatic trends, particularly to the cooling and drying associated with glaciation in the northern hemisphere.
		His consistent point is that hominid evolution should not be viewed as unique or separate from the general processes that govern change in a host of related species.
	www.uiowa.edu /~bioanth/homo.html (8417 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness at Epinions.com
		To be human is to have the ability to think in terms of symbols and to manipulate them, according to the author.
		It is not the purview of the paleoanthropologist to describe the human condition (or non-condition, because it is so hard to define) but that of psychologists and writers.
		Perhaps it is no more than the knowledge that we humans, quirky, self-contradictory beasts that we are, are capable of unspeakable horrors at the same time we are capable of love and compassion.
	www.epinions.com /content_34653703812 (1009 words)

	Rediscovering Biology - Unit 9 Human Evolution: Expert Interview Transcripts
		He studies intriguing questions about evolution, such as, what is the evolutionary history of sex?
		Perhaps it originated as the incorporation by cells of exogenous genetic material.
		He is the author of several books, including Children of Prometheus: the Accelerating Pace of Human Evolution.
	www.learner.org /channel/courses/biology/units/humev/experts/index.html (261 words)

	WPRC Library & Information Service: Books Received
		An expert on both fossil humans and lemurs, he is responsible for creating the Hall of Human Biology and Evolution at the American Museum and has done fieldwork in places as varied as Madagascar, Yemen, and Vietnam.
		I started my paleoanthropological studies in the early 1960s, a time when it was taken for granted that human evolution had consisted of little more than a long, singleminded trudge from primitiveness to perfection.
		There is only one kind of human being on Earth today, and from our insular standpoint we seem to feel that it is somehow inevitable, or even appropriate, that we are alone in the world.
	library.primate.wisc.edu /collections/books/mirror.html (1405 words)

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