The world`s most famous early human ancestor, the 3.2-million-year-old ape "Lucy", was the first Australopithecus afarensis skeleton discovered in Ethiopia on November 24, 1974.

Through this Webby-award winning educational outreach website, one can explore the origins of humanity throughout a seven million year timeline.

Did modern life on Earth evolve over millions of years, or was it created in the blink of an eye by God? That's the gist of the debate between scientists and creationists, which has been ongoing ever since Charles Darwin published his theory in 1859.

From the National Library of Medicine: ...Neanderthals have assumed an almost iconic significance in human evolutionary studies: a significance that has, of course, been greatly enhanced by the very substantial fossil and behavioral record that has accumulated since the original Feldhofer Cave skull

IntelligentDesign.org is a gateway website introducing people to the scientific debate over intelligent design and Darwinian evolution.

Nature Magazine presents the latest news about evolution.

This video series asks the questions: When did humans evolve? Who are our ancestors? Why did we evolve? Shows the major hominid (human or human-like) species discovered to date, when they lived, and how they might be related to each other.

These PBS videos, documents and links note that many of our basic traits are the heritage of a 6 million year evolutionary history. Includes Origins of Humankind, Finding Lucy, Laetoli Footprints, and bipedalism.