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Containing group: Homo

Other Names for Homo sapiens

• Modern humans

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Information on the Internet

• The Genographic Project. A five-year effort to understand the human journey—where we came from and how we got to where we live today. This unprecedented effort will map humanity's genetic journey through the ages.
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• 160,000-year-old fossilized skulls uncovered in Ethiopia are oldest anatomically modern humans. UC Berkeley Press Release.
• Behavioral and Biological Origins of Modern Humans. Online lecture by Richard G. Klein, Stanford University. Access Excellence and the California Academy of Sciences BioForum for high school biology teachers.
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• Getting to the New World. Distribution of Founding Lineage Haplotypes in Native Americans. The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.
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• Oldest human skulls found. BBC News
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• Flints and Stones: Real Life in Prehistory. University of Newcastle upon Tyne Museum of Antiquities.

• National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
• Human Genome Project Information. U.S. Department of Energy.
• Human Genome Organisation (HUGO)
• The Genome Database. An international collaboration in support of the Human Genome Project.
• The Human Genome and what it means for science, medicine, and society. The Wellcome Trust.
• H-Invitational Database (H-InvDB). A human gene database, with annotated, full-length human complementary DNAs (cDNAs).
• UK Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre.
• International Communication Forum in Human Genetics. Bridging the gap between bioscience and medicine.
• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. National Center for Biotechnology Information.

• Race, Genes & Anthropology. Stanford University.
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Indigenous Studies
• Bill Henderson's Links to Aboriginal Resources
• NativeWeb. Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World.
• Anthropology in the News. Texas A&M University.

• Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body. Features 1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn. Bartleby.com, Great Books Online.
• Anatomy for Beginners. A dissection by Dr. Gunther von Hagens and Professor John A. Lee. UK's Channel 4.
• Osteo Interactive. Human osteology, forensic anthropology, paleopathology, histology.
• Skeletal Gene Database. A multi-institute project aimed at understanding the functional genome of bone and other skeletal tissues.
• The Multi-Dimensional Human Embryo. A three-dimensional image reference of the Human Embryo based on magnetic resonance imaging.