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Classroom Resource
The poster from the 2011 Holiday Lectures on Science, Bones, Stones and Genes: The Origin of Modern Humans. It provides a unique look at the classic "tree of life" and features a timeline of various hominid fossils and their stone tool usage.
Click & Learn
Comparing features of a 4.4-million-year-old fossil skeleton to those of human and chimpanzee skeletons sheds light on our evolutionary history.
Click & Learn
Paleoanthropology provides an excellent example of the scientific process at work.
Interview
Mr. Carlson outlines the path that he took to becoming a graduate student in the White lab, including his experience as a chef.
Interview
Ms. Everhart recounts her fieldwork experiences as a member of the Shea lab and the results of her first flintknapping attempt.
Interview
Ms. Gomez explains her research in the Tishkoff lab and how it may help in understanding malaria resistance.
Interview
Ms. Pepe talks about her experiences doing field work with the Shea lab as an undergraduate at Stony Brook University.
Interview
Dr. Shea discusses his early interest in anthropology, how field work has changed over the years, and his outside interests.
Interview
Dr. Tishkoff explains how studying genetic diversity can shed light on modern-day diseases, such as diabetes and obesity.
Lectures
How reasoning and evidence are used to understand human evolution.
Lectures
Genetic evidence shows that humans evolved in Africa and continue to evolve.
Interview
Dr. White talks about his passion both for his fieldwork and for educating the scientists of tomorrow.
Lectures
Stone tools are well-preserved evidence of past human activity.
Lectures
The hominid fossil record of the past six million years gives us surprising insights into the path of human evolution.
Lectures
How humans perceive bitter taste, and the evolution of taste perception.
Lectures
Second discussion in the 2011 Holiday Lectures on human evolution, on how to effectively report scientific results to the general public.
Series
Where and when did humans arise? What distinguishes us from other species? Did our distant ancestors look and behave like us?
Animation
General transcription factors, activators, and repressors interact to regulate the transcription of eukaryotic DNA into RNA.
Animation
The lactase enzyme is produced in the small intestine of infants. It digests lactose by breaking it into glucose and galactose.
Animation
Environmental and cultural factors can affect whether a new human mutation becomes common in a population.
Video Clips
Fossilized dung beetle balls are part of a comprehensive fossil collection project to reconstruct the habitat of Ardipithecus ramidus.
Video Clips
Stone tools similar to those found at prehistoric archaeological sites can be made by fracturing rocks, a technique known as flintknapping.
Video Clips
The floor of a rift valley is prone to periodic floods that carry in fine silt--the sedimentary matter responsible for fossil formation.
Video Clips
Fossils are extremely fragile. Scientists remove them in a protective layer of plaster and clean sand away one grain at a time.
Video Clips
Due to the delicate nature of fossils, a hardening chemical is dripped onto every fossil before it is removed from the soil.
