Miss Waldron's Red Colobus (Procolobus badius), an African primate declared extinct in 2000. Click [here] for more information.
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The Turkana Boy (Homo erectus), discovered in 1984 by Alan Walker and Richard Leakey at Lake Turkana. |
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Side view of the skull of the Turkana Boy. |
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Skull of Australopithecus garhi, discovered in 1999 (the most recently discovered hominid). Click [here] for a news release on the subject. |
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"At one time, there were twenty or thirty species of so-called Miocene
apes in Africa.... The passage of ten millions years has seen... many ape
species going extinct.... What of the hominids?" (Leakey and Lewin 1992,
170)
Miss Waldron's Red Colobus (Procolobus badius), an African primate declared extinct in 2000. Click [here] for more information. |
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Reconstruction of Australopithecus afarensis. |
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Skeleton of Australopithecus Afarensis (Lucy), the most complete skeleton of an Australopithecine, about 3.2 million years B.P. |
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Brain endocast (cast based on skull interior) of an Australopithecine. |
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"The Black Skull" -- Australopithecus aethiopicus. About 2.5 million years B.P. |
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Skull of Australopithecus boisei. About 1.8 million years B.P. |
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Skull of Homo habilis. About 1.8 million years B.P. |
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Skull of Pan troglodytes. Guess what this is? |
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Skull of Homo sapiens sapiens. "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy." -- Hamlet (V, i, 203-204) |