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- Subject: Biology
- AS: AS 91606
- Level: 3
- Credits: 4
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Biology 3.6 Demonstrate understanding of trends in human evolution
Sites for revision
Human Origins is the site to go to if you only have time to visit one website. It has coverage of the above topics and it is interactive and fun, and is guaranteed to keep you interested. Video clips are included (click on the little 'V' button). For those without fast Internet connection, you can read the text instead.
Origins of humankind is an interactive website. It shows hominid fossils on an 8 million year timeline from when divergence from apes occurred until the present. Skeletal detail about each hominid can be accessed from this page. The timing of the emergence of tools is shown and you can view the hominids using them. Also check out the related web activities.
Human Evolution has coverage of most of the topics examined in this achievement standard.
Desert Kites (hunting technique)
Becoming Human
If you have a fast connection on your computer, then watch this documentary to get an excellent overview of human evolution, biological as well as cultural.
Our Primate Origins: An Introduction
The information at this site is easy to access and understand. Regularly updated by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, it has up-to-the-minute information on the fossil record of early humans.
Mutations are changes in genetic information
This problem shows how mutations on the mitochondrial DNA can be used as a molecular clock to measure human evolution, and is well worth doing. This website has a wealth of information, mostly to do with genetics. There are 41 clips to choose from and each one has a number of problems to attempt.
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