1. Nature of Humanity A Personal View

2. Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about who we are, where we came from, and where we are going. Michael Shermer (2006)

3. Mt-DNA Primate Tree

4. Our Living Sisters Pan Gorilla http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/a_tree.html

6. http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vwsu/gened/learn-modules/top_longfor/timeline/afarensis/afarensis-a.html Australopithecus species Genus now designated Paranthropus http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/a_tree.html

7. Homo species http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vwsu/gened/learn-modules/top_longfor/timeline/timeline.html http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/a_tree.html

8. http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vwsu/gened/learn-modules/top_longfor/timeline/africanus/africanus-a.html http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/a_tree.html

10. Features that distinguish our species from other apes Bipedal Locomotion

12. Figure 1 from Richmond, B. G., D. R. Begun, and D. S. Strait. 2001. Origin of human bipedalism: The knuckle-walking hypothesis revisited. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. 44:70-105.

13. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/species.html

14. Features that distinguish our species from other apes Neoteny –Nakedness –Large Brain Size –Reduced Dentition

15. The Neotenic Ape

16. Features that distinguish our species from other apes Vocal Communication

17. http://www.voice.northwestern.edu/VOICEBOX/Larynx.htm

19. Humans are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them ‘round to dinner. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. 42

20. Paintings of Lascaux http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/

21. http://mexplaza.udg.mx/wm/paint/auth/vinci/joconde/

23. http://www.artchive.com/artchive/G/greek/venus_de_milo.jpg.html

24. Nikos Kasantzakis Zorba the Greek http://www.ffolio.com/abarchive/film/zorba.html

25. Agincourt Song http://battlefieldvacations.com/france/aginco.htm

26. God Save the Queen God save our gracious Queen, Long live our noble Queen, God save the Queen! Send her victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us, God save the Queen! http://www.emulateme.com/anthems/unitedkingtexte.htm

27. Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (Premiered May 1, 1786 in Vienna) http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/mozart.html

28. Sgt. Pepper

29. Richard Dawkins A meme is … anything that infects itself from brain to brain. Dawkins. 1998. Unweaving the Rainbow.

30. Written Language http://www.gutenberg.de/english/erfindun.htm

31. Then the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. -Genesis 2:7 http://prodigi.bl.uk/gutenbg/background.asp

32. Rig-Veda http://phoenicia.org/rigveda.html

33. Ovid’s Metamorphoses http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/files/xeno.ovid1.htm

34. Assyro-Babylonian cuneiform >7,000 years ago http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Games/cuneiform.html

35. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam http://www.okonlife.com/pics/index.htm The moving finger writes; and having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. -LXXI

36. http://www.twainquotes.com/

37. Stephen Jay Gould http://www.annonline.com/interviews/961009/biography.html Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again.

38. What a piece of work is man. http://www.chemicool.com/Shakespeare/

39. Tycho's Supernova Remnant in X-ray http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960623.html

40. Footprints at Laetoli http://www.humanevolution.f2s.com/laetolifoot.html

41. Loren Eiseley If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden reaches man arose. The green world is his sacred center. In moments of sanity he must still seek refuge there. — Loren Eiseley http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4189/

42. E. O. Wilson The human species can change its own nature. What will it choose? Wilson. 1978. On Human Nature.

43. H. G. Wells http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~lhsjamse/wells/wells.htm A day will come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who are latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool, and shall laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars. Wells. 1902. The Discovery of the Future. Nature 65 (326).

44. Man is a small thing, but the night is large and full of wonders. -The Laughter of the Gods.

45. Man thinks and God laughs.