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Evolutionary Biology: Human Origins

Webcasts

Webcasts of the Relatively Human lecture series.

Resource Guide

Human Evolution and the Discovery of Human Antiquity

Journals

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Online articles from 2000 to the present available in the library. Earlier issues are in the library's print holdings.

Open Access Journals

Material in these publications is freely available without subscription.

Paleoanthropology
Official publication of the Paleoanthropology Society.

Web Resources

What Does it Mean to be Human
Human Origins information from the Smithsonian Institution. Education, exhibition, research, and faces reconstruction.
Becoming Human
An interactive website from the Institute of Human Origins. The Institute was founded by Donald Johanson in 1981.
John Gurche - Paleo-Artist
The human head reconstructions at the Smithsonian WebSite were created by John Gurche.
Paleoanthropology Society
"The Paleoanthropology Society was founded in 1992. It recognizes that paleoanthropology is multidisciplinary in nature and the organization's central goal is to bring together physical anthropologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, geologists and a range of other researchers whose work has the potential to shed light on hominid behavioral and biological evolution."
Scientific American: Archeology & Paleontology
Some articles are available to all while others will require a subscription.
Articles from Science Magazine

Examples of materials from the exhibition

The geological evidences of the antiquity of man: with remarks on theories of the theories of variation by variation by Charles Lyell
Call Number: GN735 .L81 1863 Rare Book Room
In the History of Science Library
La creation de l'homme et les premiers ages de humanite by Henri Du Cleuziou
Call Number: GN738 .D8 1887 Rare Book Room
Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art by Henry Fairfield Osborn
Call Number: GN775 .O7 1915 Rare Book Room
In the History of Science Collection
Reliquiae diluvianae: or observations on the organic remains contained in caves, fissures, and diluvial gravel, and on other geological phenomena, attesting the action of an universal deluge. by William Buckland
Call Number: QE507 .B8 1823 Rare Book Room
In the History of Science Library
La terre avant le deluge. 5th ed. by Louis Figuier
Call Number: QE651 .F485 1866 Rare Book Room
Ideal views of the primitive world, in its geological and palaeontological phases by Franz Unger
Call Number: QE721 .U55 1961 Rare Book Room
The descent of man: and selection in relation to sex.
Call Number: QH365 .D2 1871 Rare Book Room
"On the evidence of the antiquity of man, afforded by the physical structure of the Somme Valley. Natural History Review. 2:244-269 by John Lubbock
Publication Date: 1862
Color illustration of a hand axe.

Speakers

Brian Fagan : Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans

Donald Johanson: What Lucy Says About Us (KCUR interview with Steve Kraske)

Richard Edward Green : Neanderthal Genome Project: New Insights into Human Evolution

Matthew Tocheri : The Pleistocene Meets Middle Earth: The Significance of the Indonesian Hobbits in Human Evolution

What Does it Mean to be Human?

From the Smithsonian Institute: What does it mean to be human?