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By exploring both fossil and molecular evidence for human evolution, this five-minute video contrasts the ideas of relatives and descendents in order to illustrate our connection to other primates and define what is meant by a "common ancestor." It also discusses the similarities and differences in DNA sequences between different species.
Finding Lucy
A five-minute video describing the discovery of the famous skeleton, which clearly demonstrated that Australopithecines were small-brained, but walked upright.
Becoming Human
An interactive website about paleoanthropology, evolution and human origins (presented by paleoanthropologist Donald Johansen of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University).
Who's Who in Human Evolution?
In this interactive activity, follow the path of hominid development as it is currently known. Scientists have traced hominids—that is, species more closely related to humans than to other apes—all the way back through the australopithecines, like the three million-year-old Lucy, to Sahelanthropus tchadensis, who lived over six million years ago. The key feature that all these hominids share is bipedalism, which separates hominids from the primate line that eventually produced today's chimpanzees and other great apes.
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