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The way we were: scientists make no bones about the value of 3D imaging in studying our distant ancestors.
they a good man is hard to find. Change that to "a good fossil hominid," and it's just about impossible to find one of those. It's not that there aren't plenty of human fossils in museums. But museum curators would have to have rocks in their heads to part with a rare and fragile fossil skull, even for scientific study. Thanks to computer graphics, however, researchers are learning reams about human origins without having to damage or alter valuable specimens.
A paleoanthropologist's work often requires figuring out how to glean maximum information about human origins from a minimum of fossil fragments. Among the questions scientists ponder are how our ancestors ...
- Human Origins 101.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Science Teacher Fetters, Claudia March 1, 2008 700+ words
Human Origins 101 By Holly M. Dunsworth $49.95. 192...9780313336737. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Human Origins 101 provides a comprehensive look at our understandings of human origins and the evidence we use to support them...
- Human origins 101.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2007 700+ words
9780313336737 Human origins 101. Dunsworth, Holly M. Greenwood...readers an introductory exploration of human origins and evolution. Coverage includes a brief history of the search for human origins and human evolutionary studies; evolutionary...
- The First Humans: Human Origins and History to 10,000 BC. (book reviews)
- Magazine article from: Antiquity Fagan, Brian December 1, 1995 700+ words
...spans an enormous time bracket, from human origins to about 10,000 BC. An intelligently...What is Humankind?', moving on to `Human Origins', `Towards Homo sapiens', and...picture spread in this section. `Human Origins' is mainly concerned with biological...
- New Evidence for Two Human Origins.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: MBR Bookwatch Dunford, Michael September 1, 2007 700+ words
New Evidence for Two Human Origins Gary T. Mayer AuthorHouse 1663...presents New Evidence for Two Human Origins: Discoveries That Reconcile The...nucleus, New Evidence for Two Human Origins draws upon recent evidence suggesting...
- Method and theory.(Explaining human origins: myth, imagination and...
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Knight, Chris December 1, 2003 700+ words
...trans. Mary Turton). Explaining human origins: myth, imagination and conjecture...Stoczkowski's book, we learn little about human origins, quite a lot about the myth. 'Man...displacement' controversy which has rocked human origins research over the past tow decades...
- Bony is in at Human Origins exhibit.
- Newspaper article from: Newsday (Melville, NY) February 7, 2007 700+ words
...fitting introduction to the newly reopened Spitzer Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan...Neanderthals that we as humans left far behind. The Spitzer Hall of Human Origins opens to the public on Saturday. For more information...
- DNA data yield new human-origins view.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Science News Bower, B. March 20, 1999 700+ words
...sapiens. "Our data fall between the predictions of current human-origins theories," says geneticist Jody Hey of Rutgers University...genetic material to clarify the time and place of modern human origins (SN: 2/6/99, p. 88).
- Humans: a not so modest affair.(Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us...
- Magazine article from: Antiquity Brothwell, Don March 1, 2009 700+ words
ROB DESALLE & IAN TATTERSALL. Human origins: what bones and genomes tell us about ourselves. 216...sapiens, although wisdom seems to be in short supply. Human origins In the enjoyable text by DeSalle and Tattersall, we are...
