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The Human Family

Subject
Discussion:

- Human Family Tree: The sharing a common ancestors.

- Australopithecus: The development of distinguishing features.
- Homo Erectus: Successful but extinct type of Homo Species.
- Homo Floresiensis: Extinct hobbits.
- Neanderthals: Disappeared but still have traces left in our DNA.
- Denisovans: Disappeared but sill have traces in our DNA.
- Migration of Homo Sapiens: The causes and consequences.

Suggested reading materials and web-sources:

1. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World, Volume 1, Chapter 1:
Becoming Human.
2. Peter N. Stearns, World History in Brief: Major Patterns of Change and Continuity,
Combined Volume, Chapter 1: From Human Prehistory to the Rise of Agriculture.
3. Camilo J. Cela-Conde and Francisco J. Ayala, Human Evolution: trails from the past
(Oxford University Press, 2007).
4. David Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (University of California
Press, 2004).
5. Ian Tattersall, The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE (Oxford University Press,
2008).
6. http://humanorigins.si.edu

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7. http://www.humanjourney.us
8. http://darwin-online.org.uk
9. http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/
10. https://www.wikipedia.org