December 2009
Chimps Use Cleavers and Anvils as Tools to Chop Food
BBC News
Cereal Much Older Than We Thought: Canadian Study
Vancouver Sun
Telegraph
Human-like Fossil Find Is Breakthrough of the Year
BBC News
Single Migration Wave Populated Asia
Softpedia
Social Conformity 'Not Unique to Humans'
STV News (Scotland)
November 2009
'Hobbits' Are a New Human Species -- According to the Statistical Analysis of Fossils
EurekAlert
How Humanlike Was "Ardi"?
Scientific American
Human-Chimp Gene Comparison Hints at Roots of Language
Wired Science
New York Times
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
