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• 3-Million-Year-Old Skeleton Gets CT Scan - NPR (07 February 2009)
  
  
• African fossils put new spin on human origins story -- BBCNews (09 September 2011)
  
  
• Ancient Cave Women 'left childhood homes' -- BBC News (01 June 2011)
  
  
• Earliest Known Bacterial Infection Found -- Discovery News (20 August 2009)
  
  
• EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS OF AUSTRALOPITHECUS AND HOMO ("family tree") -- Nicholas F. Bellantoni
  
  
• AFRICAN PLIOCENE & PLEISTOCENE HOMINIDS -- Anth 233, UConn
  
  
• ArchNet -- World Wide Web Virtual Library for Archaeology
  
  
• East-African Human Ancestors Lived in Hot Environments -- ScienceDaily (08 June 2010)
  
  
• The Evolution of Man -- Hooper Paleontological Museum
  
  
• Examining Ancient Fossils for Clues to Human Origins -- NPR (09 September 2011)
  
  
• Hi-tech scans reveal brain of human -- BBCNews (08 September 2011)
  
  
• Human Ancestors Lived on Shaky Ground -- ScienceDaily (03 March 2011)
  
  
• Human Ancestor 'Family' May Not Have Been Related -- Live Science (04 November 2011)
  
  
• Human ancestor footprints: 'Family' theory stubs a toe -- MSNBC (08 November 2011)
  
  
• Human Ancestor May Put Twist in Origin Story, New Studies Say -- National Geographic News (08 September 2011)
  
  
• Human origins story takes new turn -- BBCNews (08 September 2011)
  
  
• Humans Left Trees 4.2 Million Years Ago -- Discovery News (28 January 2011
  
  
• 'Mosaic' Fossil Could Be Bridge From Apes To Humans -- NPR (08 September 2011)
  
  
• Nicole's AnthroPage -- Archaeology
  
  
• "Bone Tools Suggest Hominids [ A. robustus] Ate Termites" -- ABC News
  
  
• The Hominid Family Tree -- PBS
  
  
• Our Ancestors Speak Out After 3 Million Years -- NewScientist (23 November 2011)
  
  
• Possibly Pivotal Human Ancestor Debated -- Science News (18 April 2011)
  
  
• Skeleton of Ancient Human Relative May Yield Skin -- New Scientist (16 November 2011)
  
  
• Some Like It Hot: Site of Human Evolution Was Scorching -- ScienceDaily (08 June 2010)
  
  
• Wanderlust drove our female ancestors far from the home cave -- Guardian (01 June 2011)

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Australopithecus
Australopithecus -- Wikipedia

• anamensis
  Australopithecus anamensis -- Wikipedia
  
  

Australopithecus anamensis -- abcNews.com

Australopithecus anamensis -- Lorraine Dallmeier

Australpithecus anamensis -- James Q. Jacobs

Australopithecus anamensis -- Origins of Humankind

Australopithecus anamensis -- About

• The big news from Anthropology in the News for 14 April 2006 was the discovery of new Australopithecus anamensis fossils:

• Fossils Fill Gap in Human Lineage -- BBC News (4/12/06)
  
  
  • New Fossil Links Up Human Evolution -- ABC News (4/12/06)
    
    
  • Hominid Fossils from Ethiopia Link Ape-Men to More Distant Human Ancestors -- EurekAlert (4/12/06)
    
    
  • Fossil Find Improves Knowledge of Human Origins -- LiveScience (4/12/06)
    
    
  • Ancient Fossils Fill Gap in Early Human Evolution -- Reuters (4/12/06)
    
    
  • Fossil Connects Human Evolution Dots -- CNN (4/12/06)
    
    
  • Fossils Fill Human Evolution Gap -- Discovery (4/13/06)
    
    
  • Earlier Ancestors: Ethiopian Fossils Link Humans to 4.4 Million-Year-Old Apelike Creatures, Researchers Say -- San Francisco Chronicle (4/13/05)
    
    
  • New Fossils Add Link to the Chain of the Evolution of Humans -- New York Times (4/13/06)

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Afar region (map of Ethiopia)

• afarensis (including "Lucy" and the "First Family")
  Australopithecus afarensis -- Wikipedia
  
  

Australopithecus afarensis
National Geographic photo gallery -- "Selem"

3-Million-Year-Old Skeleton Gets CT Scan -- NPR (2009-02-07)

'Lucy' Predecessor Turns Back The Clock On Walking -- NPR (25 June 2010)

"Lucy" Kin Pushes Back Evolution of Upright Walking? -- National Geographic News (21 June 2010)

Puzzling Over Pre-Humans -- MSNBC (10/6/08)

Australopithicus afarensis: The story of Lucy -- WSU

Australopithecus afarensis -- Lorraine Dallmeier

Early Fossil Jaw, Tools Found In Ethiopia -- Institute of Human Origins

Lucy -- Institute of Human Origins

The First Humans -- D. I. Loizos

Australopithecus afarensis -- Hooper Paleontological Museum

Australopithecus afarensis -- Dr. Meave Leakey

 

Images

Australopithecus afarensis -- CSUS



Animation

Australopithecus afarensis -- American Museum of Natural History

Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence in 3D -- Phillip Walker and Ed Hagen

[Out of Order] Animation - A Left Hip Joint Model of Lucy -- Hominid Palaeontology Research Group

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• africanus
  Australopithecus africanus -- Wikipedia
  • "The Taung Child"
    
    
  • "Little Foot"
    
    
    • Major fossil find at Sterkfontein Caves -- University of Witwatersrand
      
      
  • Australopithecus africanus -- The Stone Way
    
    
  • Ausralopithecus africanus -- Hooper Paleontological Museum
    
    
  • Australopithecus africanus -- Lorraine Dallmeier
    
    
  • Images
    
    
    • Australopithecus africanus "Mrs. Ples", STS-5 -- CSUS
      
  • Animation
    
    
    • Australopithecus africanus -- American Museum of Natural History
      
      
    • Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence in 3D -- Phillip Walker and Ed Hagen
      
      
  • Visit to the Cradle of Humankind [Sterkfontein] -- Guardian (15 January 2010)

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• garhi
  Australopithecus garhi -- Wikipedia

• "Australopithecus garhi, A New Human Ancestor?" -- James Q. Jacobs
  
  
• New Human Ancestor? -- ABC News
  
  
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  • Animation

 

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Paranthropus
(aka Australopithecus robustus)
Australopithecus robustus (Paranthropus) -- Wikipedia

Australopithecus robustus in southern Africa 1 million years ago.

Australopithecus robustus SK 48

One of the the teeth of four individuals of Paranthropus robustus
(also known as Australopithecus robustus)
from the Swartkrans Cave in South Africa.
(Science)

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• aethiopicus
  Australopithecus aethiopicus (Paranthropus aethiopicus) -- Wikipedia
  
  
  • Australopithecus aethiopicus -- Aleksey Vlasko
    
    
  • Australopithecus aethiopicus -- Lorraine Dallmeier
    
    
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  • Animation
    • Paranthropus aethiopicus -- American Museum of Natural History

 

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