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• Introduction
• NSF HOMINID grant: Adaptability Project
• Field Research
• Dispatches from the field:
• Summer 1999
• Summer 2004
• Field Projects in China
• Field Projects in India
• Field Projects in Kenya
• Public Outreach
• National Museums of Kenya
• Public Exhibits
• The Human Origins Team at the Smithsonian

• Quick Time Virtual Reality Movies (QTVR)
• Enter the Hall
• Primate Origins
• Anatomy of Primates
• Human Family Tree
• Ardipithecus ramidus
• Australopithecus anamensis
• Australopithecus afarensis
• Australopithecus africanus
• Australopithecus garhi
• Paranthropus aethiopicus
• Paranthropus boisei
• Paranthropus robustus
• Homo habilis
• Homo rudolfensis
• Homo ergaster
• Homo erectus
• Homo heidelbergensis
• Homo neanderthalensis
• Homo sapiens
• Catalogue of Specimens
• AL 200-1
• AL 129-1
• Laetoli footprints
• Australopithecus afarensis composite skull
• Taung I
• Makapansgat composite skull
• STS 5
• STS 71
• KNM WT 17000
• OH 5
• KNM ER 406
• KNM ER 732
• KNM WT 17400
• KNM ER 2300
• Peninj Mandible
• SK 46
• SK 48
• TM 1517
• OH 7
• KNM ER 1813
• KNM ER 1805
• OH 24
• KNM ER 1470
• KNM ER 3733
• KNM ER 992
• KNM ER 3883
• KNM WT 15000
• Trinil 2
• NG 6
• Weidenriech Reconstruction
• Sangiran 2
• Mauer 1
• Kabwe cranium
• La Ferrassie I
• La Chappell-aux-Saints I
• Le Moustier
• Shanidar I
• Cro-Magnon I
• Wadjak I
• Skhul IV

• 2003
  • Coming soon
• 2002
  • Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia
  • Intra- and Interspecific Variation in Primate Gene Expression Patterns
• 2001
  • Homo sapiens "Get Smart" in Africa
  • Late Miocene Hominids from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia
  • Earliest Presence of Humans in Northeast Asia
  • New Hominin Genus from Eastern Africa Shows Diverse Middle Pliocene Lineages
• 2000
  • Anatomical Evidence for Knuckle-walking Found in Early Human Fossils
  • Mid-Pleistocene Acheulean-like Stone Technology of the Bose Basin, China
  • Early Human Occupation of the Red Sea Coast of Eritrea during the Last Interglacial
  • Earliest Pleistocene Hominid Cranial Remains from Dmanisi, Republic of Georgia
• 1999
  • Australopithecus garhi: A New Species of Early Hominid from Ethiopia
• 1998
  • Endocranial Capacity in Early Hominid Cranium from Sterkfontein, South Africa
  • One-Million-Year-Old Cranium of Genus Homo found in Eritrea\
  • Description of Radiometric Dating

• Early Humans vs Hominid
• Radiometric Dating Methods
• Geologic Time
• Geologic Time Scale

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