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Discovery of Early Hominids (Popularity:  )
(Score: 12.97)
http://anthro.palomar.edu/hominid/australo_1.htm
A brief history of australopithecines and how they were found.
Category: Science\Biology\Flora and Fauna\Animalia
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Life and Times of Early Man (Popularity: )
(Score: 12.70)
http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/EarlyMan.html
Overview of major groups of hominids.
Category: Science\Biology\Evolution\Human
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Reflections on the Origins of Scavenging and Hunting in Early Hominids (Popularity: )
(Score: 11.38)
http://www.jqjacobs.net/anthro/paleo/scavenging.html
An essay by James Q. Jacobs discussing when our earliest human ancestors first began to scavenge for meat and hunt. Includes references.
Category: Science\Biology\Evolution\Human
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Early Hominids (Popularity: )
(Score: 11.17)
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1997/May/hour1_053097.html
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 ...
Category: Science\Biology\Flora and Fauna\Animalia
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Reflections on Prehistory (Popularity: )
(Score: 11.12)
http://www.jqjacobs.net/anthro/prehisty.html
Offers an overview of prehistory ranging from topics on early hominids to regional discussions of prehistory in the Near East and the American Southwest.
Category: Science\Social Sciences\Archaeology\Periods and Cultures
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Exploration and Survey of Pleistocene Hominid Sites in Armenia and Karabagh (Popularity: )
(Score: 10.71)
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/King/king.html
Recent discoveries in the Caucasus region indicate that hominids occupied this area over a period of nearly two million years. The earliest hominids outside Africa are known from the Georgian ...
Category: Science\Social Sciences\Archaeology\Regional
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Early warning sound mirrors (Popularity: )
(Score: 8.22)
http://www.ajg41.clara.co.uk/mirrors/
Andrew Grantham provides photographs and details of surviving early 20th-century acoustic mirrors on the British coast designed to provide early warning of enemy aircraft.
Category: Science\Technology\Aerospace\Aeronautics
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Early Birds of Aviation, Inc. (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.85)
http://www.rcooper.0catch.com/
Stories and photographs of the 598 original members of the Early Birds of Aviation, and some 220 "Other Early Flyers." from around the world.
Category: Science\Technology\Aerospace\Aeronautics
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Island of the Lost Hominids (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.53)
http://www.corante.com/loom/archives/026745.html
Article by Carl Zimmer about the significance of the discovery of this new hominid. From Corante: The Loom.
Category: Science\Biology\Flora and Fauna\Animalia
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Flores Dwarf Hominids (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.53)
http://johnhawks.net/weblog/fossils/flores
Collection of articles and blog commentaries arguing about the lineage of Homo floresiensis.
Category: Science\Biology\Evolution
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Catalogue of Orbitolinid Foraminifera (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.53)
http://www.paleotax.de/orbitos/
Database on Orbitolinidae (Early to early Late Cretaceous) including taxonomy, fossil localities and references.
Category: Science\Earth Sciences\Paleontology\Micropaleontology
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Bankes, William John (1786-1855) (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.43)
http://www.cosmopolis.ch/english/cosmo31/egypt_nubia_bankes.htm
A biography of the explorer who traveled to Egypt and Nubia in the early 19th century and became an early Egyptian epigrapher.
Category: Science\Social Sciences\Archaeology\Archaeologists
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History of Farming (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.43)
http://www.historylink101.com/lessons/farm-city/story-of-farming.htm
Illustrated overview of the origins and development of agriculture, with bibiliography, notes from early cultures, and pictures of early farm implements and tractors.
Category: Science\Agriculture\History
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Leo Strauss on Early Modern Philosophy (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.32)
http://www.mun.ca/animus/1998vol3/robert3.htm
"The Closing of the Early Modern Mind: Leo Strauss and Early Modern Political Thought" by Neil G. Robertson
Category: Science\Social Sciences\Political Science\Political Philosophy
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Earliest Fire Sheds Light on Hominids (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.31)
http://www.nature.com/nsu/040426/040426-16.html
Nature article on ancient hearths unearthed in Israel considered to be nearly 800 millennia old.
Category: Science\Social Sciences\Archaeology\Regional
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Stranger in a New Land (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.23)
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=0008C127-C322-1F80-B57583414B7F0103
From Scientific American, stunning finds in the Republic of Georgia upend long-standing ideas about the first hominids to journey out of Africa.
Category: Science\Social Sciences\Archaeology\Regional
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River Apes (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.23)
http://www.RiverApes.com/
Promotes a variation on the aquatic ape theory that suggests humans evolved from two hominids that were adapted to a water-side habitat.
Category: Science\Biology\Evolution\Human
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Scientific American: Stranger in a New Land (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.23)
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=0008C127-C322-1F80-B57583414B7F0103
Stunning finds in the Republic of Georgia upend long-standing ideas about the first hominids to journey out of Africa
Category: Science\Biology\Evolution\Human
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Information relating to early microscopes (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.11)
http://www.antique-microscopes.com/
This site highlights a collection of antique brass microscopes from the late 18th to early 20th centuries. Many photos and articles.
Category: Science\Methods and Techniques\Microscopy\Light Microscopy
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Early Interactive Molecular Graphics Movie Gallery (Popularity: )
(Score: 7.11)
http://www.umass.edu/molvis/francoeur/movgallery/moviegallery.html
QuickTime versions of molecular animation sequences from the late 1960s and early 1970s, with an emphasis on biomacromolecules.
Category: Science\Chemistry\Computational\Structure and Image Repositories
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