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The 89 pages that link to Human evolution, each with the reason it gives.

• PleistoceneRelated: Many major changes in human evolution occurred during the Pleistocene.

• Comparative anatomyBroader topic: Comparative anatomy places human traits among those of other primates.

• BipedalismNarrower topic: Bipedalism arose early in the human lineage, before many later human traits.

• Homo erectusNarrower topic: Homo erectus occupies a major but debated position in this branching history.

• HomininNarrower topic: Hominin relationships are central to reconstructing the wider human evolutionary story.

• Homo sapiensNarrower topic: Homo sapiens is the living endpoint of a branching evolutionary history.

• CenozoicRelated: Humans emerged near the end of the Cenozoic.

• Alfred Russel WallaceRelated: Wallace’s later disagreements with Darwin over human mental capacities shaped debate about evolution.

• PaleolithicNarrower topic: Several human species lived during the Paleolithic as bodies and behaviors changed.

• Thomas Henry HuxleyRelated: Huxley’s anatomical arguments challenged claims that humans were separate from other animals.

• Cave paintingNarrower topic: Cave painting provides evidence about symbolic behavior and cultural expression in human populations.

• DenisovanNarrower topic: Denisovans show that human evolution involved multiple interacting populations, not a single lineage.

• AustralopithecusNarrower topic: Australopithecus is central to debates about the branching pattern of this history.

• Olduvai GorgeNarrower topic: Olduvai evidence has figured prominently in reconstructing early stages of this history.

• Deep timeBroader topic: It places humanity within a much older history of life.

• Human genetic variationNarrower topic: Modern genetic diversity emerged through evolutionary changes in human populations.

• Great Rift ValleyRelated: Rift-region fossils document major stages in the history of hominins.

• NeotenyRelated: Neoteny has been proposed to explain some similarities between adult humans and juvenile apes.

• Louis LeakeyNarrower topic: Leakey’s discoveries contributed evidence and arguments to this broader field.

• Cognitive revolutionNarrower topic: The hypothesis locates cognitive change within the broader evolution of the human lineage.

• Human exceptionalismNarrower topic: A shared evolutionary lineage complicates claims that humans stand outside the rest of life.

• Mary LeakeyNarrower topic: Leakey’s fossil and archaeological discoveries changed evidence available for reconstructing it.

• Tool use by animalsRelated: Animal tool use informs comparisons with the technologies and cognitive capacities that evolved in humans.

• Piltdown ManNarrower topic: Piltdown was presented as evidence for an early stage in this history.

• Quaternary glaciationRelated: Repeated climate shifts altered habitats and resources encountered by human populations.

• Recent African origin of modern humansNarrower topic: Recent African origin is a model within this broader evolutionary history.

• Robert BroomNarrower topic: Broom’s fossils broadened the evidence used to reconstruct early stages of this history.

• Denisova CaveNarrower topic: The cave’s evidence revealed a more diverse and interconnected human past.

• Hominin evolutionBroader topic: This narrower history follows the lineage leading specifically to living humans.

• Homo nalediNarrower topic: Homo naledi adds a late-surviving, anatomically distinctive branch to this history.

• LaetoliNarrower topic: Laetoli anchors evidence about locomotion early in that history.

• Lucy (Australopithecus)Narrower topic: Lucy’s anatomy informs accounts of when upright walking emerged in that history.

• Middle PleistoceneNarrower topic: Major diversification among later human lineages occurred during the Middle Pleistocene.

• PaedomorphosisRelated: Some hypotheses interpret human juvenile-like facial traits relative to other apes as paedomorphic.

• Taung ChildNarrower topic: The Taung Child became evidence in debates about the sequence and geography of that history.

• The Descent of ManNarrower topic: Darwin’s account became a foundational argument that humans have an evolutionary history.

• Theistic evolutionBroader topic: It raises questions about human origins, moral status, and the theological account of the soul.

• Australopithecus sedibaNarrower topic: The species’ mosaic anatomy has prompted competing accounts of its place in that history.

• Dmanisi homininsNarrower topic: Dmanisi widened the known geographic and anatomical range of early Homo.

• Mitochondrial EveNarrower topic: Mitochondrial Eve is one genetic marker in human evolution, not its singular origin.

• Stone AgeNarrower topic: Stone Age technologies developed alongside changes in human bodies, behavior, and populations.

• TailRelated: Human ancestors lost their external tails, leaving the coccyx as a remnant.

• CatarrhiniBroader topic: It is one recent branch of the much older catarrhine evolutionary history.

• Evolutionary anthropologyBroader topic: It is the field’s central historical subject, reconstructed from biological evidence.

• Henry Fairfield OsbornRelated: Osborn applied his evolutionary views to human origins and racial classification.

• HomoNarrower topic: Homo is a major genus within this broader history.

• Human–chimpanzee last common ancestorBroader topic: The ancestor lies near the beginning of the human evolutionary branch.

• Java ManNarrower topic: Java Man contributed evidence for the geographic spread of ancient humans.

• Neanderthal genome projectNarrower topic: The project added genomic evidence to the history of interactions among human groups.

• Raymond DartNarrower topic: Dart’s work changed how fossil evidence informed this broader history.