Early Hominids - Radio report about a research team's discovery, in a Pleistocene cave site in Atapuerca, Spain, of a new species of hominid (Homo antecessor) that may be the common ancestor of both modern humans and Neanderthals.
Homo habilis and Homo erectus - Article on the earliest creatures of the human genus, Homo habilis and Homo erectus, users of stone tools, with enlarged brains.
Meat Eating and Hominid Evolution - Paper by Craig B Stanford and Henry T Bunn on this subject including how the pattern of meat eating in modern people compares with early humans.
Peter Brown's Australian and Asian Palaeoanthropology - Covers the hominid fossil record from Australia, East Asia and South-East Asia, including archaic and modern Homo sapiens and Homo erectus. Also includes a PDF field guide to the human skeleton, and downloadable data files of anthropometric data on various historical and modern Asian and Australian collections.
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