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Index
Abell, Paul
Absolute dating
Acheulean technology
Adam’s Ancestors (Leakey)
Adam’s Tongue (Bickerton)
Adaptive radiation
Adventures in the Bone Trade (Kalb)
Afar Triangle. See also Awash
River, Awash Valley; Hadar; Middle
Awash Research Group
Africa. See also North Africa; South Africa; under individual countries
climate change
geology
Middle Stone Age
Africa, as cradle of humankind
and DNA analysis. See DNA (deoxyribose nucleic acid)
Afrikaner Nationalists
Aiello, Leslie
Allia Bay site, Kenya
Allopatric speciation
Ambrose, Stanley
American Museum of Natural History
American scientific community, recognizes Australopithecus
Americas, migration to
Amhara people
Apartheid era
Apes, Miocene
Arabia, border with Africa
Arambourg, Camille
Archaeology, definition
Ardi
Ardipithecus
Ardipithecus kadabba
Ardipithecus ramidus, as bipedal
Asfaw, Alemayehu
Asia
as cradle of humankind
migration to
Associated Scientific and Technical Societies of South Africa
Australian aboriginals
Australian mammals
Australian National University
Australopithecines
adult skull found
family tree
as non-Homo ancestors
as offshoot of hominid line
as one species
Pre-Zinjanthropus. See Pre-Zinjanthropus
recognized, by American scientists
recognized, by British scientists
Australopithecus
characteristics of
family tree
foot characteristics
in the Ice Age
in South Africa
as tree-dweller
Australopithecus afarensis
accepted, by academic community
brain capacity
description
family tree
Australopithecus africanus
brain capacity
Broom on
characteristics of
debate on authenticity
exhibited at British Empire Exhibition
features of
found
Australopithecus anamensis
Australopithecus bahrelghazali
Australopithecus boisei
brain capacity
Australopithecus ramidus
designation changed to Ardipithecus
environment of
Australopithecus robustus
diet
Australopithecus sediba
Australopithecus transvaalensis
Avery, Oswald
Awash River, Awash Valley
Gona River site
Baringo, Lake
Baringo Paleontological Research Project
Barlow, George
Bartlett, Des
Basalt
Bather, F. A.
Beatles, The, ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’
Behrensmeyer, Kay
Berger, Lee
Bickerton, Derek, Adam’s Tongue
Biface
‘Big Bang’, genetic
Biology. See also Genetics
molecular
Biota
Bipedalism
advantages of
and brain capacity
first evidence of
impetus for
Bipedality, definition
Bishop, William
Black Skull
Blombos Cave
Boer War
Boise, Charles
Bonnefille, Raymonde
Boskop Man
Boswell, Percy
Botswana
Bottleneck theory, and evolution
Boule, Marcellin
Bourg de Bozas, Robert
Bow and arrow technology
Brace, Loring
Braciosaurus skeleton