Some useful and interesting documents I have found and used:
Paleoanthropology - Paleobiology and age of African Homo erectus
from Eric Delson
Finds of ever-older human relatives and potential ancestors have caught the public's imagination in recent years. Kenyan fossils newly described on page 788 of this issue by Brown et al.' could help to swing the pendulum of public interest back toward younger fossils belonging to species of our own genus, Homo. Since 1969,Richard Leakey and his colleagues have recovered human and other fossils from deposits along the eastern shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya
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Apes
Apes and humans are closely related primates in the superfamily Hominoidea. The living hominoids are subdivided into the families Hylobatidae and Hominidae. The hylobatids or lesser apes (genus Hylobates) are represented by approximately nine species found throughout Southeast Asia.
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2002 Harrison Fossil apes.pdf 226 KB
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Laurasian migration explains Gondwanan disjunctions:Evidence from Malpighiaceae
Charles C. Davis, Charles D. Bell, Sarah Mathews, and Michael J. Donoghue
Explanations for biogeographic disjunctions involving South America and Africa typically invoke vicariance of western Gond-wanan biotas or long distance dispersal. These hypotheses are problematical because many groups originated and diversified well after the last known connection between Africa and South
America ( 105 million years ago), and it is unlikely that ‘‘sweep-stakes’’ dispersal accounts for many of these disjunctions. Phylo-genetic analyses of the angiosperm clade Malpighiaceae, combined with fossil evidence and molecular divergence-time estimates, suggest an alternative hypothesis to account for such
distributions.
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Fact sheet - Sub-Saharan Africa
Overview
Almost two thirds (63%) of all people living with HIV globally live in sub-Saharan Africa an estimated 24.7 million in 2006.
Some 2.8 million adults and children became infected with HIV in 2006, more than in all other regions of the world combined.
The 2.1 million AIDS-related deaths in sub-Saharan Africa represent 72% of global AIDS deaths.
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ANTHROPOLOGY
Bruce Bower reports from Oakland, Calif., at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
South African fossil surprises
An underground cavern in South Africa known as Sterkfontein yielded an important trove of hominid fossils in a series of excavations more than 35 years ago. Finds included the approximately 2.5-million-year-old bones of Australopithecus africanus, a creature whose place in human evolution remains unclear, and the remains of an early Homo species from around 1.5 million years ago.
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