Ancient History, Pre-History and Human Evolution
Studying early human development
Questions
How did homo-sapiens evolve to its present state? What is our connection to other living things, even to star-dust? What is the ancient story of how we came to migrate and settle in different parts of the world and create vastly differing cultures, world views, religions and technologies? What makes us similar and what makes us different and what can we learn from this knowledge?
How did life start and evolve on Earth? Are there other other life forms extraterrestrially? Where? Can we ever hope to communicate with them?
What are the answers today and expected results tomorrow?
Recent Articles of Interest
Gene study suggests Native Americans came from Siberia - November 27, 2007
My Own DNA Analysis
For my Christmas 2005 present from my wife I received a human genographic project DNA test kit. Click here for the results of my test (my ancestry).
Magazine and Online Resources
In my quest to find answers to these questions I have found the following resources extremely useful:
- Wikipedia, the collaborative online encyclopedia, for a wide range of general and specific scientific inquiries (www.wikipedia.org)
- The Teaching Company Courses (www.teach12.com)
- Scientific American Magazine, as above plus the latest research reports (www.sciam.com)
- National Geographic Magazine, for general inquires into our environment and man's place within it (www.nationalgeographic.com)
- Human Genographic Project, for human migration history research results based on DNA analysis (www.nationalgeographic.com/genographic)
- Sky and Telescope Magazine, for physical cosmology and particle physics related research results (www.skyandtelescope.com)
Book Resources
- A History of Knowledge/The Pivotal Events, People and Achievements of World History, Charles van Doren
- Guns, Germs and Steel/The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond (click here for a review)
- The Journey of Man/A Genetic Odyssey, Spencer Wells (click here for an interview with the author)