Human

Human Origins - The Natural History Museum provides a number of short videos on this topic.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/human-origins/

Time-Space Chart: Hominid Fossils - Provides details of the different hominid finds from around the world by place and species.
https://www.msu.edu/~heslipst/contents/ANP440/

Hominid Evolution - An unorthodox human evolution theory based on a synthesis of biological and cultural theory and new discoveries in neuropsychology.
http://www.serpentfd.org/section2hominidevolution.html

The Upright Ape: A New Origin of the Species - Information on a book by Aaron G. Filler MD, PhD that presents a new theory on the early origins of the hominiform primates.
http://www.uprightape.net

Human Origins Summary - Information and links to other sites.
http://www.cix.co.uk/~awhitec/HumanOrigins/Introduction.htm

Human Origins and Prehistory - Class page to go along with Indiana University's anthropology class, A105. Lectures cover the human place among the pages, evolution theories, genetics and current research. Related resource links are included.
http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/teach/A105.html

Origins and Evolution of Human Diet - Central repository of information and links pertaining to the study of the origins and evolution of human diet.
http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/icaes/index.html

A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution - Offers an outline of William Calvin's from his book about a theory about human brain evolution and climate change.
http://www.williamcalvin.com/BrainForAllSeasons/index.htm

Maropeng - The official visitor centres for the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, Gauteng, South Africa. Provides information on the Sterkfontein Caves, the exhibition, and the other facilities for conferences, education and accommodation.
http://www.maropeng.co.za

Institute of Human Origins - A non-profit, multidisciplinary research organization, affiliated with Arizona State University, dedicated to the recovery and analysis of the fossil evidence for human evolution.
http://www.asu.edu/clas/iho/

The Evolution of Man - Exhibit on the evolution of man at the Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum.
http://hoopermuseum.earthsci.carleton.ca//man/begin.html

Human Origins and Development of Culture - Covers the development of humans from our ancestors. In module format.
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/origins/

The Hominid Journey - Demonstrates how our ancestors have changed over the last 4 million years. Provides information on the location and age of hominid discoveries and how the cranium and other features developed over time.
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~reffland/anthropology/anthro2003/origins/hominid_journey/central.html

The Record of Human Evolution - Article by Eric Delson of the National Center for Science Education outlining the process by which humans have evolved from pre-human primates in the last 15 million years.
http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/articles/4922_the_record_of_human_evolution_12_7_2000.asp

Handprint : Ancestral Lines - Provides an'interactive' graph that maps the journey of our hominid ancestors from 5 million years ago to present day with descriptions of the various species.
http://www.handprint.com/LS/ANC/evol.html

Hominid Evolution - Descriptions of fossil and recent hominid species.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1381/

Human Evolution - A study of the evolution of hominids.
http://www.onelife.com/evolve/manev.html

The Leakey Family - PBS provides biographical information on the Leakey family and their work and important discoveries in East Africa.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/boleak.html

Handy Clues to Ascent of Man - BBC News report on study suggesting that the precision grip of early modern humans may have allowed them to triumph over Neanderthals.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1154491.stm

Human Origins - Radio program discusses fossil discoveries that may provide the earliest documented evidence of toolmaking, and push the origin of homo sapiens back more than 400,000 years. A discussion featuring Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1997/May/hour2_050997.html

Human Family Tree - Hominid descriptions including a timeline
http://www.freewebs.com/humanfamilytree03k/

Becoming Human - Arizona State University's Institute for Human Origins reviews four million years of human evolution in an interactive documentary. Includes an extensive glossary, a bibliography, and an annotated set of links. [Requires Flash and a high-speed connection.]
http://www.becominghuman.org/

Hominid Evolution - The Hunterian Museum in Glasgow provides an online exhibition starting with the dryopithecine apes of the Miocine era and working through to modern humans.
http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/collections/museum/hominid/hominid_index.shtml

Prominent Hominid Fossils - The list is sorted by species, going from older to more recent species. Within each species, finds are sorted by the order of their discovery. Each species has a type specimen which was used to define it.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/specimen.html

Paleoanthropology in the 1990's - A series of fifteen essays about the most recent findings in the study of human origins and evolution.
http://www.jqjacobs.net/anthro/paleo/

Theory of Human Evolution - The Emuseum's general overview of human evolution summarizing people in the study of human evolution, terms, hominid fossil images and links.
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/biology/humanevolution/

BBC News: 'Oldest' Ape-man Fossils Revealed - Scientists unveiled the remains of a hominid said to be six million years old. <small>(February 7, 2001)</small>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1157536.stm

Spirituality and Evolution - This article discusses the evolutionary significance of spiritual development.
http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/jes999/HumNat.htm

Nariokotome Reconstruction - Sculptural and forensic techniques used to approximate what the Nariokotome boy (KNM-WT-15000)looked like in life.
http://brianaala.tripod.com/Narboy.html

Leakey.com: The Leakey Family - Leakey.com celebrates 100 years of the Leakey Family in East Africa.
http://www.leakey.com

Aida Gomez Robles - Personal webpage of this researcher in Paleoanthropology at the National Research Centre on Human Evolution (CENIEH). Includes research lines, publications, fieldwork and curriculum vitae.
http://aida.gomezrobles.googlepages.com/

Scientific American: Food for Thought - Article, by William R. Leonard, arguing that dietary change was a driving force in human evolution.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0007B7DC-6738-1DC9-AF71809EC588EEDF

Scientific American: Stranger in a New Land - Stunning finds in the Republic of Georgia upend long-standing ideas about the first hominids to journey out of Africa
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=0008C127-C322-1F80-B57583414B7F0103

Modern Human Origins - A reference site for information on human evolution, with images of hominid specimens arranged by species and site, papers written by C David Kreger, and a bibliography.
http://www.modernhumanorigins.com/

Out of Africa and back as "Mongoloids" - An alternative explanation of human evolution evolution.
http://klevius.info/Humandiaspora.html?1085339285543

The Evolution of Man - Essays recounting our three million year journey from the treetops of Africa to civilization.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/human/human_evolution/

Did Language Reduce Sequence Variation? The Evolution of Humans - Two articles regarding theories of rapid evolution through biased gene conversion and loss of allelic variation, leading to the winnowing of the bushy hominid tree.
http://www.geocities.com/acgyles/minid.html

Hall of Human Origins - Provides information on this permanent exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History covering the evolution of humans over the last six million years.
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/humanorigins/?src=e_h

Prehistoric Cultures - Lecture notes for a course covering human and pre-human history.
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/

Carboniferous Human Bones - A discussion and thorough critique of claims that human bones have been found in context with Carboniferous age geological formations.
http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/t_origins/carbbones/carbbones.html

Human Evolution - Comprehensive information from Wikipedia on the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species from other hominans, great apes and placental mammals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution

Human Prehistory - Exhibit that "walks through" the various stages of human evolution.
http://users.hol.gr/~dilos/prehis.htm

A Look at Our Ancestors - Humboldt University's summary of the hominid evolutionary line, with species involved grouped by genus.
http://www.humboldt.edu/~mrc1/

Archaeology Info - Human evolution and archaeology online resource for amateurs and experts alike.
http://www.archaeologyinfo.com/

Paleoprimatology & Human Evolution Yahoo! Group - A forum for the scientific discussion of paleoanthropology, paleoprimatology, physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, Stone Age archeology, human origins, primate biology, and primate evolution.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/paleoanthropology/

Evolution's Arrow - Full text of a book presenting the author's views about directionality in evolution and its implications for human society.
http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/jes999/index.htm

Fossil Hominids - Summary of species, proposed taxonomy and timeline for fossil hominids.
http://www.snowcrest.net/goehring/a2/primates/fossils.htm

New Scientist: Chromosomes Reveal Surprise Human-chimp Differences - Comparisons of newly-sequenced chimpanzee chromosome 22 and its counterpart, human chromosome 21, show that while the DNA differences are small, they are spread out to affect 83 percent of the proteins coded for. <small>(May 26, 2004)</small>
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn5044

An Essay on Human Evolution - A speculative essay on primate evolution in East Africa in the period between approximately five million years BCE and two and one-half million years BCE, during which significant pre-human evolution took place and ending when recognizably-human, tool-using creatures first emerged.
http://home.comcast.net/~cmdaven/human.htm

Think Quest: Human Origins - Aimed at both students and educators alike, providing factual information and follow up questions about human origins.
http://library.thinkquest.org/26070/data/eng/

Human Evolution Pictures and Timelines - A collection of pictures and timelines depicting the evolution of human beings.
http://www.wilderdom.com/evolution/HumanEvolutionPictures.htm

Sahelanthropus tchadensis - Toumai - Web Resources for Sahelanthropus tchadensis aka "Toumai" can be found here.
http://www.sahelanthropus.com

Sahelanthropus tchadensis - Picture and discussion of the fossil cranium TM 266-01-060-1 (Toumaï) found in Chad in 2001. It is estimated to be between six and seven million years old. Until other early hominid fossils are found to provide context it cannot be known how this species relates to the human, chimp, or even gorilla lines.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/toumai.html

Human Evolution from Ape to Technological Man - Traces origins from ape ancestors such as Australopithecus to modern man. Talks about Neanderthals and their relationship to the gorilla and chimpanzee.
http://www.ecotao.com/holism/huevo/index.html

BBC News: Asteroids May Have Affected Human Evolution - The ascent of mankind could have been influenced by frequent cosmic catastrophes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1272368.stm

Life and Times of Early Man - Overview of major groups of hominids.
http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/EarlyMan.html

New Scientist: Dawn of Human Race Uncovered - The discovery of three Ethiopian skulls from 160,000 years ago, showing almost completely modern features, lends new support to the Out-of-Africa hypothesis. Includes information about handling of skulls after death and dating techniques used. <small>(June 11, 2003)</small>
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3814

The Multi-habitat Hypothesis - A theory of human evolution which seeks to understand how humans evolved from animals that were similar to the great apes.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/4314/intromhh.html

Human Origin Program - Smithsonian Institution's journey through five million years of human evolution.
http://anthropology.si.edu/humanorigins/

Braindance - Dean Falk at Florida State University outlines research being done on early hominids and the evolution of the human brain.
http://www.anthro.fsu.edu/research/falk/braindance.html

Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence in 3D - 3D gallery of the skulls of five modern primate relatives and five fossil ancestors of humans contains, each of which may be rotated through 360 degrees. With accompanying descriptions.
http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/

Instant Evolution: The Influence of the City on Human Genes - Argues that humans have, in fact, been evolving, since Neanderthal times. Points to new studies being done with gene mutations.
http://howardbloom.net/instant_evolution.htm

Human Origin - A proposal of an evolutionary explanation of the human bipedallity, sexual behaviour, language, and consciousness.
http://home13.inet.tele.dk/palm/homweb.htm

Human Origins and Evolution in Africa - Links for primates, human evolution and paleoecology, course notes on Human Origins, and Jeanne Sept's personal web pages at Indiana University.
http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/

Evolution: Origins of Humankind - Interactive site introducing the human-like species that came before us, our closest ancestors, with a hominid family tree.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/humans/humankind/

Hominid Species - Provides information on the discovery of hominid fossils in different parts of the world and the time range in which each species lived.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/species.html

Leakey Foundation - Non profit organization site with several articles, glossary, and links section.
http://www.leakeyfoundation.org/

Australian and Asian Palaeoanthropology - Information and teaching resources on human evolution and the hominid fossil record from Australia, East Asia and South-East Asia.
http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~pbrown3/palaeo.html

Reflections on the Origins of Scavenging and Hunting in Early Hominids - An essay by James Q. Jacobs discussing when our earliest human ancestors first began to scavenge for meat and hunt. Includes references.
http://www.jqjacobs.net/anthro/paleo/scavenging.html

Language Evolution and Computation Bibliography and Resources - Bibliographic resource for those researching the computational aspects of language evolution.
http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/