October 2009

New Primate Fossil Poses Further Challenge to Ida
ScienceNOW
New York Times
Times Online
Guardian

Ardipithecus ramidus
Special issue of Science
New York Times
Nature News
The Columbus Dispatch

September 2009

Researchers Probe Links Between Modern Humans and Neanderthals
PhysOrg.com

Early Europeans Used Sophisticated Tools
ScienceNOW

August 2009

Tiny Ancient Shells Point to Earliest Fashion Trend
Science Blog

Early Modern Humans Use Fire to Engineer Tools from Stone
e! Science News
SFGate

Humanity’s Upright Gait May Have Roots in Trees
Science News

World's Oldest Map: Spanish Cave Has Landscape from 14,000 Years Ago
Telegraph
USA Today

Human Population Expanded During Late Stone Age, Genetic Evidence Shows
Science Daily

July 2009

Did an Ice Age Boost Human Brain Size?
New Scientist

Human Likely Killed Neanderthal, Weapons Test Shows
National Geographic
EurekAlert

Primate Archaeology Sheds Light On Human Origins
Science Daily

The Common Ancestor Of Humans, Monkeys And Apes Could Have Originated In Asia
redOrbit

June 2009

'Oldest Musical Instrument' Found
BBC News

60,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Skull Fragment Trawled Up in North Sea
Times Online

Individual Primates Display Variation In General Intelligence
Science Daily

“Missing Link” Could Add Mediterranean Chapter to Story of Human Evolution
Wired Science

May 2009

German Fossil Found to Be Early Primate
New York Times
Guardian
Times Online

Hobbit Was a Dwarf with Large Feet
Nature News
NPR interview with Bill Jungers and Dan Lieberman

Study Reveals Source of Human Evolution, African Genetics
redOrbit

April 2009

A Tiny Hominid With No Place on the Family Tree
New York Times

Analysis: Neanderthals Split into Three Populations
USA Today

Chimpanzees Exchange Meat for Sex
BBC News

Oldest Stone Blades Uncovered
ScienceNOW

March 2009

Asian Homo erectus Converges in Time. (New dates for Zhoukoudian.)
Nature
National Geographic News
Science Daily

February 2009

Stepping Out: What Can Fossil Footprints Reveal about the Evolution of the Human Foot? (Newly described fossil footprints from Ileret, Kenya.)
Science
Scientific American
Science News

Lucy 2.0: Famous Fossil Hominid Goes Digital
Wired

December 2008

"Out of Africa" Came Mostly Men, Geneticists Say
World Science

Neanderthal Genome Already Giving Up Its Secrets
New Scientist

November 2008

Rare Fossil Find Sheds Light on Evolution of Women
New Scientist

DNA Chunks, Chimps and Humans: Marks of Differences Between Human and Chimp Genomes
Science Daily

Last Of His Kind? Researchers Complete Mitochondrial Genome Of Ancient Mummy, The Tyrolean Iceman
Science Daily
University of Leeds press release

October 2008

Two Legs Good
At the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting, researchers presented a single bone, the thighbone of an ancient australopithecine from Galili, Ethiopia, that may add an interesting piece to the puzzle of how our famed ancestor "Lucy's" two-legged gait evolved.
Science

Gorilla Study Gives Clues to Human Language Development
University of Sussex press release

The Thrill of the Hunt Is Not Lost on Bonobos
The New York Times

Leading Geneticist Steve Jones Says Human Evolution Is Over
The Times Online
Tom Feilden's blog @ BBC News (includes an audio interview with Steve Jones)

September 2008

Brainy Babies and Risky Births for Neandertals
Science

July 2008

Linnean Society celebrates seminal evolution papers
Nature

June 2008

Louisiana Opens School Door for Opponents of Evolution
Science

The other beetle-hunter
Nature

May 2008

Science teaching must evolve
Nature

China was an Ancient-Ape Paradise
Science News

Ancient DNA From Frozen Hair May Untangle Eskimo Roots
Science

April 2008

Tanzania takes steps to save ancient human prints
Nature

Aligning Conservation Priorities Across Taxa in Madagascar with High-Resolution Planning Tools
Science

DNA From Fossil Feces Breaks Clovis Barrier
Science

Australopithecus Not Much of a Nutcracker
Science

Archaeology: Bones, isles and videotape
Nature

March 2008

Pacific 'dwarf' bones cause controversy
Nature

Hobbit was 'a cretin'
Nature

The first hominin of Europe
Nature

Communicative Signaling Activates ‘Broca's’ Homolog in Chimpanzees
Current Biology

Archaeology: Facing up to the past
Nature

February 2008

Tool Use Is Just a Trick of the Mind
Science

HIV's ancient legacy
Nature

January 2008

Why We're Different: Probing the Gap Between Apes and Humans
Science

Fears for oldest human footprints
Nature

December 2007

Monkeys add up like we do
Nature

Hominid Harems: Big Males Competed for Small Australopithecine Females
Science

Chimp beats students at computer game
Nature

Paleontologists Get X-ray Vision
Science

Dental Evidence Suggests Neandertals Matured Faster Than We Do
Science

November 2007

Molecular and Genomic Data Identify the Closest Living Relative of Primates
Science

Phylogenetic analyses of behavior support existence of culture among wild chimpanzees
PNAS

Pan African culture: Memes and genes in wild chimpanzees
PNAS

Cloned monkey stem cells produced
Nature

Stem cells: Primates join the club
Nature

Watson suspended over comments on race
Nature

October 2007

Biologists come close to cloning primates
Nature

Neanderthals in central Asia and Siberia
Nature

Red-headed Neanderthals? DNA says yes: study

Nariokotome Boy to Go on the Road Despite Protests
Science

September 2007

A New Body of Evidence Fleshes Out Homo erectus
Science

August 2007

Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya
Spoor et al
Nature

Famous fossil Lucy begins tour: Some experts say it’s dangerous gamble
MSNBC

Paleoanthropology: The Fellowship of the Hobbit
Science

New Fossils Challenge Line of Descent in Human Family Tree
Science

Twin fossil find adds twist to human evolution
Nature

Orang-utans are cunning communicators
Nature

Odd Skull Boosts Human, Neandertal Interbreeding Theory
National Geographic

July 2007

Smart apes spit
Nature

Mastodon DNA sequenced
Nature

This chimp is made for walking
Nature

Swingers
The New Yorker

June 2007

Anthropology: Walking on Trees
Science

Origin of Human Bipedalism As an Adaptation for Locomotion on Flexible Branches
Science

Paleoanthropology: Food for Thought
Science

Paleoanthropology: Swapping Guts for Brains
Science

Is it a chimp-help-chimp world?
Nature

Ancient disease resistance made us vulnerable to HIV
Nature

May 2007

Upright orangutans point way to walking
Nature

Ancient DNA: No Sex Please, We're Neandertals
Science

Human ancestors went underground for dinner
Nature

Archaeology: Deep divisions
Nature

April 2007

A Barrel of Monkey Genes
Science

Boom Time for Monkey Research
Science

Genomicists Tackle the Primate Tree
Science

Evolutionary and Biomedical Insights from the Rhesus Macaque Genome
Science

Human-Specific Changes of Genome Structure Detected by Genomic Triangulation
Science

Mobile DNA in Old World Monkeys: A Glimpse Through the Rhesus Macaque Genome
Science

Demographic Histories and Patterns of Linkage Disequilibrium in Chinese and Indian Rhesus Macaques
Science

Evolutionary Formation of New Centromeres in Macaque
Science

Hobbit's Status as a New Species Gets a Hand Up
Science

March 2007

German Law Stirs Concern Illegal Artifacts Will Be Easier to Sell
Science

Robot Suggests How the First Land Animals Got Walking
Science

Report Tells NSF to Think More Boldly
Science

Jurassic Genome
Science

February 2007

Hall of Human Origins opens at the American Museum of Natural History

Spear-Wielding Chimps Seen Hunting Bush Babies
Science

Monkeys hug it out to avoid fights
Nature

Chimps make spears to catch dinner. Wooden weapons are a first in animal kingdom
Nature

Oldest chimp tools found in West Africa
Nature

Ancient DNA solves milk mystery
Nature

January 2007

Palaeontology: Embryonic identity crisis
Nature

Fossil Dealers Launch Research Journal
Science

Palaeontology journal will 'fuel black market'
Academics say published fossil finds should be available for study
Nature

Disbelievers in Evolution
Science letters

The Missing Years for Modern Humans
Science

Late Pleistocene Human Skull from Hofmeyr, South Africa, and Modern Human Origins
Science

Don't wash those fossils! Standard museum practice can wash away DNA
Nature

December 2006

Archeology and the dispersal of modern humans in Europe: Deconstructing the Aurignacian, Paul Mellars
Evolutionary Anthropology

Group Competition, Reproductive Leveling, and the Evolution of Human Altruism
Science

Ebola Outbreak Killed 5000 Gorillas
Science

Tracking Ebola's Deadly March Among Wild Apes
Science

What's a Mother to Do? The Division of Labor among Neandertals and Modern Humans in Eurasia
Current Anthropology

November 2006

Anti-evolutionists raise their profile in Europe
Nature

Neanderthal genome sees first light. Initial sequences sheds light on common ancestor
Nature

Isotopic Evidence for Dietary Variability in the Early Hominin Paranthropus robustus
Science

A Tool for All Seasons
Science

Dolphin With Four Fins May Prove Terrestrial Origins
National Geographic

Elephant "Missing Link" Fossil Found, Study Says
National Geographic

Ethiopian plan for Lucy tour splits museums. Palaeontologists say fossil bones should stay in Africa.
Nature

October 2006

Did Neanderthals and modern humans get it together? Hybrid fossils in Romania add to story of ancient human pairings.
Nature

Lucy's Tour Abroad Sparks Protests
Science

What Makes us Different? Not very much, when you look at our DNA. But those few tiny changes made all the difference in the world
TIME Magazine

September 2006

A juvenile early hominin skeleton from Dikika, Ethiopia
Zeresenay Alemseged et al.
Nature

Geological and palaeontological context of a Pliocene juvenile hominin at Dikika, Ethiopia
Jonathan G. Wynn et al.
Nature

Toddler hominin has arms for swinging and legs for walking
Nature

Claim of Oldest New World Writing Excites Archaeologists
Science

Mild Climate, Lack of Moderns Let Last Neandertals Linger in Gibraltar
Science

Late survival of Neanderthals at the southernmost extreme of Europe, Finlayson et al
Nature

Palaeoanthropology: Return of the last Neanderthal, Delson & Harvati
Nature

August 2006

Will the hobbit argument ever be resolved? Debate over tiny human's evolutionary status is set to rage on.
Nature

Pygmoid Australomelanesian Homo sapiens skeletal remains from Liang Bua, Flores: Population affinities and pathological abnormalities
PNAS

Skeptics seek to slay the 'Hobbit,' calling Flores skeleton a modern human
Science

Going East: New Genetic and Archaeological Perspectives on the Modern Human Colonization of Eurasia
Science

Evolution Scores in Kansas Primary
Science

It's official: apes outsmart monkeys. Primate IQ test hails orang-utans as our smartest relatives.
Hopkins
Nature

Competition Drives Big Beaks Out of Business
Pennisi
Science

Evolution of Character Displacement in Darwin's Finches
Grant and Grant
Science

Evolution caught in the act. Smaller beaks in Galápagos finches make finding food easier
Ledford
Nature

July 2006

Geneticists shoot for Neanderthal genome in two years. Plans to sequence our cousins are unveiled at anniversary meeting
Dalton and Jones
Nature

Palaeoanthropology: Decoding our cousins
Dalton
Nature

Darwin's champions fight back
Williams
Current Biology

June 2006

Dodo skeleton find in Mauritius
BBC News

Middle Paleolithic Shell Beads in Israel and Algeria
Vanhaereny
Science

Three New Lemurs Discovered, Add to Madagascar's Diversity
Norris
National Geographic News

Social Animals Prove Their Smarts
Pennisi
Science

A Rare Meeting of the Minds
Gibbons
Science

First Jewelry? Old Shell Beads Suggest Early Use of Symbols
Balter
Science

Primate Life History Databank: Setting the Agenda
Strier et al
Evolutionary Anthropology

The Human Revolution Rethought
Shea
Evolutionary Anthropology

Tobias and Taung Turn Eighty
Pearson
Evolutionary Anthropology

Primates Take Weather into Account when Searching for Fruits
Janmaat et al.
Current Biology

Animal Cognition: Moneky Meteorology
Platt
Current Biology

Revisiting Neandertal diversity with a 100,000 year old mtDNA sequence
Orlando et al.
Current Biology

Tooth gives up oldest human DNA
Helen Briggs
BBC News

Early stone technology on Flores and its implications for Homo floresiensis
Adam Brumm et al.
Nature

Old tools shed light on hobbit origins
Nature

Tools Link Indonesian 'Hobbits' to Earlier Homo Ancestor
Science

A New Genus of African Monkey, Rungwecebus: Morphology, Ecology, and Molecular Phylogenetics
Tim R. B. Davenport et al
Science

Court Revives Georgia Sticker Case
Constance Holden
Science

May 2006

How the Hobbit Shrugged: Tiny Hominid's Story Takes New Turn
Elizabeth Culotta
Science

But Is It Pathological?
Elizabeth Culotta
Science

Apes Save Tools for Future Use
Nicholas J. Mulcahy and Josep Call
Science

Apes demonstrate ability to plan ahead: Scientists study how bonobos, orangutans anticipate need for tools
MSNBC report

Genomes Throw Kinks in Timing of Chimp-Human Split
Elizabeth Pennisi
Science

Genetic evidence for complex speciation of humans and chimpanzees
Nick Patterson et al.
Nature online

A newly discovered catarrhine primate from the early Miocene site of Napak IX in Uganda has been named Lomorupithecus harrisoni, after Dr Terry Harrison.

• Rossie JB and MacLatchy L. 2006 A new pliopithecoid genus from the early Miocene of Uganda. Journal of Human Evolution 50: 568-586.

March 2006

$200 Million Gift for Ancient World Institute Triggers Backlash by Michael Balter
Science