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Anthro.Net
A search engine that “queries a database of over 40,000 reviewed web sites with anthropological content built by the interests of its users.”
Anthropology Resources on the Internet
Maintained by the American Anthropological Association.
Anthropology Resources on the Internet
Maintained by Bernard-Olivier Clist.
Biological Anthropology (Yahoo)
Search these categories: Forensic Anthropology, Human Evolution, Paleoanthropologists, Paleontology, People of the Americas, and Primatology.
Primatology (D. Formenti’s Links)
Anthropology Biography Web
Part of the Emuseum at Minnesota State Unversity, this site offers brief, encyclopedic entries on the lives of 392 significant anthropologists or prominent thinkers in other fields who have influenced the discipline.
Anthropology Review Database (ARD)
A project of the University of Buffalo, this site reviews books, films, audio-visual products, educational multimedia, and computer programs, and Web projects.
Becoming Human:
Paleoanthropology, Evolution, and Human Origins
A joint project of Arizona State University’s Institute for Human Origins, documentary filmmaker Lenora C. Johanson, and Terra Incognita, this site is designed to teach a general audience about human evolution and the search for early hominid life in the field. The key feature of the site is an extensive Flash-driven, online documentary which includes a number of pop-up sub-exhibits that provide additional information and resources on various topics.
Evolutionary
Theories in the Social Sciences
Maintained Professor J. Peter Murmann, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, this site offers materials relating to a broad interdisciplinary field that includes sociobiology, management, evolutionary biology, business history, anthropology, and even mathematics and engineering.
Fossil Hominids:
The Evidence for Human Evolution
From the talk.origins newsgroup, the primary purpose of this site is to refute creationist claims that there is no evidence for human evolution.
Guide to the Collections of the National Anthropological Archives
An important repository of primary source material, covering cultural anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, and physical anthropology. The collections include papers of eminent American anthropologists as well as the records of the American Anthropological Association.
Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence in
3D
View an online Shockwave version of the Human Evolution Software,
which uses 3D models of hominid skeletal material.
Human Origins Program: In Search of What Makes Us Human
This site provides an informative tour of the current state of human paleontology. A hypertext family tree of early human phylogeny helps you see not only the relations between various incarnations of human ancestors, but lets you click on parts of the timetable to examine fossil evidence and read about the discovery of and conclusions drawn from crucial skull bones and fragments. Another section allows you to examine three key fossilized skulls with QuickTime, so that you can rotate the skull and zoom in on key features.
Human Prehistory: An Exhibition
Maintained by D. I. Loizos, this site, composed of six “rooms,” features sketches of Charles Lyell, T. H. Huxley, and Charles Darwin.
Living Links
Web site of the Center for the Advanced Study of Ape and Human Evolution, Emory University. The Center specializes in comparisons of the social life, ecology, cognition, neurology, and molecular genetics of apes and humans.
Primate
Gallery
A central source for primate illustrations, paintings, photographs, and sounds for educational use, primate identification, and studies in taxonomy. Links to other primate sites are extensive.
Primate Info Net
From Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Race: Are We So Different?
From the American Anthropological Assocation.
The Skull Module
An introductory attempt to assist students of human cranial skeletal anatomy. Features QuickTime VR movies of many cranial bones.
The Smithsonian Institution Human Origins Program: In Search of What Makes Us Human
Learn about five million years of early human evolution in the Hall of Human Ancestors, keep track of developments in the science of paleoanthropology, see a summary of human origins.
World Lecture Hall
A gateway to online lectures, course outlines, and entire Web-based modules. Click on “Browse by Area” at the top of the screen, then click on “Anthropology / Archeology.”
Museum of Anthropology (University of Michigan)
Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai`i
The Hawai`i state museum of natural and cultural history.
Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
The premier online natural history exhibit.
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
The world's leading professional organization for physical anthropologists.
The British Academy
The national academy for the humanities and social sciences in the United Kingdom.
Institute of Human Origins
A non-profit, multidisciplinary research organization dedicated to the recovery and analysis of the fossil evidence for human evolution.
The Leakey Foundation
The mission of the Leakey Foundation is to increase scientific knowledge and public understanding of human origins and evolution.
Palaeoanthropology Society
Brings together physical anthropologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, geologists and a range of other researchers whose work has the potential to shed light on hominid behavioral and biological
evolution.
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological
Research
The foundation's mission is to advance significant and innovative research about humanity's cultural and biological origins, development, and variation, and to foster the creation of an international community of research scholars in anthropology.
Anthropology in the News
Links to news stories published on the web by CNN, New York Times, USA Today, MS-NBC, Los Angeles Times,
Houston Chronicle, San Jose Mercury, Archaeology, Scientific American, American Scientist, National Geographic, university press releases, and other sources.
Anthropology Web Ring
Aims to bring together anthropology oriented sites on the Internet to provide valuable links to all
groups of interest.
Handbook on Ethical Issues in Anthropology
“A special publication of the American Anthropological Association.”