Biological Anthropology Websites

eskeleton project

I like this website because it allows you to compare the skeletal features of primate and human skeletons. You can choose the species, bone, and orientation of the image you wish to see. After completing the form, the pictures you request appear side by side.

Maybe what you really like are bugs...

This website covers forensic entomology, or the importance of bugs and larvae in determining the time of death in a forensics case.

Human teeth

Each tooth is available in a rotating view/video. I found that the video plays really fast, but you can slide the tracker through the video slowing, and it shows the disarticulated (lose) tooth rotating 360 degrees and ends on the occlusal (biting) surface.

Osteointeractive

This page desperately needs an update, but it has some news stories that featured cases in forensic anthropology. The news stories are interesting, but see professional organizations links below for up to date conference information.

Dental Microwear

Learn how teeth retain microscopic wear patterns that reflect what we eat. Studies on living primates show how different diets change the microwear patterns on teeth. Therefore, teeth that are found and studied show what the individual was eating just before he or she died.

Fossil Hominids: The Evidence for Human Evolution

General information about Paleoanthropology. Includes links for current literature and news articles.

The Hobbit: Homo floresiensis

Remember the "Hobbit" that was found in 2003? Learn more about its species on this page. See also National Geographic.

Becoming Human

A documentary about Becoming Human presented by ASU's Institute of Human Origins (formerly the Anthropology Department).

Resource Guide to Paleoanthropology

Contains many different pages related to all aspects of Biological Anthropology. This website is provided by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

The Leakey Foundation

Apparently the famous name was not enough, they needed a foundation. I wish I was born a Leakey, then I might have been better funded for grad school... <sigh>

Understanding Race

A project of the AAA. A very interesting research project on race.

Professional Organizations

• American Association of Physical Anthropologists
• Paleopathology Association
• American Society of Primatologists
• Paleoanthropology Society
• NYCEP The New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology
• American Academy of Forensic Sciences
• Human Biology Association
• Dental Anthropology Association
• American Association of Anthropological Genetics
• American Anthropological Association
• Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology
• Society for Medical Anthropology
• Biological Anthropology Section of AAA
• American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Inc.
• Midwest Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Association

Journals for Biological Anthropology   
             All are available at Western Michigan University's library as full text articles.   Biological Anthropology eBooks