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Subtopic: Human Evolution

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Double Immunity
Dr. Stephen O'Brien of the National Cancer Institute discovers a 700-year-old mutation that makes a person resistant to HIV infection. From Evolution: "Evolutionary Arms Race."

9-12 QuickTime Video

Evolution of the Eye
Zoologist Dan-Erik Nilsson demonstrates how the complex human eye could have evolved from simple light-sensitive cells. From Evolution: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea."

9-12 QuickTime Video

Evolving Ideas: Did Humans Evolve?
This video from Evolution explores the evolution of humans from a common ancestor of humans, chimpanzees, and other apes.

9-12 QuickTime Video

Evolving Ideas: Why Does Evolution Matter Now?
In this video from Evolution, an exploration of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in the Russian prison system highlights one reason it is important to understand evolution.

9-12 QuickTime Video

Finding Lucy
This Evolution video segment depicts the landmark hominid fossil finds by Don Johanson and his team in Ethiopia.

9-12 QuickTime Video

Function of Fever
Fevers are a sign of infection, but they may also be part of the cure. This drawing illustrates Matthew Kluger's lizard study, which supports the notion that fever can be beneficial.

6-12 JPEG Image

Homo Sapiens Versus Neanderthals
This video segment, adapted from NOVA, explores reasons why Homo sapiens had an advantage over Neanderthals in the pursuit of territory and natural resources.

6-12
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Human Chromosome 2
In this video segment adapted from NOVA: "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial," learn how modern genetics and molecular biology offer compelling support for evolution. The video features an interview with biologist Ken Miller.

6-12
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Human Evolution
Students investigate hominid evolution. They learn the difference between a relative and an ancestor, study the emergence of bipedalism, and chart patterns of hominid migration.

9-12 Lesson Plan

Is Love in Our DNA?
Did evolution shape your taste in a mate? Take our interactive poll from Evolution.

9-12 HTML Interactive

Laetoli Footprints
This Evolution video segment describes how the famous track fossils known as the Laetoli footprints might have been formed and what they can reveal about the creatures who left them.

6-12 QuickTime Video

Laetoli Trackways Diagram
View a diagram of the hominid footprints that archaeologist Mary Leakey's team found at Laetoli in Tanzania.

9-12
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A Mutation Story
This video segment describes the role of the sickle cell gene in natural selection. Footage courtesy of the PBS series Secret of Life: "Accidents of Creation."

6-12 QuickTime Video

Nature vs. Nurture Revisited
Which dictates our existence -- our genetic makeup or the environment we grow up in? Kevin Davies offers an update on this long-standing debate, from the NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" Web site.

9-12 HTML Document

Origins of Humankind
In this Evolution feature, examine a six-million-year-long fossil record to learn about the evolution of the human family.

9-12 Flash Interactive

Riddle of the Bones
In this Evolution Web feature, piece together clues to how one of our early ancestors looked as you examine images from four significant fossil finds of Australopithecus afarensis.

9-12 Flash Interactive

Should We Create Babies by Design?
Should we attempt to control our heredity? Take our poll, developed for the Evolution Web site.

9-12 HTML Interactive

Sweaty T-shirts and Human Mate Choice
This video segment from Evolution: "Why Sex?" explores the "sweaty T-shirt experiment," which showed that humans may unconsciously be drawn toward a specific kind of genetic variation in a mate.

9-12 QuickTime Video

Tracing Human Evolution to Its Roots
This graphic from Biology by Kenneth R. Miller and Joseph Levine suggests how some recent hominid fossil finds might fit into the overall picture of hominid evolution. As more fossils are found and further analysis advances our understanding of human evolution, this picture will almost certainly be revised.

9-12 JPEG Image

The Transforming Leap, from Four Legs to Two
John Noble Wilford, a New York Times science writer, outlines various hypotheses on the origin of bipedalism.

9-12 HTML Document

Walking Tall
This video segment from Evolution: "Great Transformations" illustrates the differences between the skeletons of a chimpanzee (a knuckle-walker) and a human (a biped).

9-12 QuickTime Video