References
Books
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859), Penguin (2009)
Arthur T Gregor, Charles Darwin, Angus & Robertson, London, 1967.
Christopher Ralling, The Voyage of Charles Darwin, His autobiographical writings, BBC, London, 1978.
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Broadway Books, 2003.
Bill Mesler and H. James Cleaves II, A Brief History of Creation, Norton, London, 2016.
David Christian, Maps of Time – An introduction to Big History, University of California Press, London, 2004, 2011.
Marcelo Gleiser, Imperfect Creation – Cosmos, Life and nature’s Hidden Code, Black, Melbourne, 2010
Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth – The Evidence for Evolution, Bantam Press, London, 2009.
Richard Dawkins, The Magic of Reality – How we know what’s really true, Bantam Press, London, 2011.
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press, 1976, 1989, 2006.
Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype, Oxford University Press, 1982,1999.
Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, Norton, New York, 1987, 1986, 2006.
Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong, The Ancestor's Tale - A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2004, 2nd Edition, 2016.
Steve Jenkins, Life on Earth – The Story of Evolution.
Stuart Firestein, Ignorance – How it drives Science, OUP, New York, 2012.
Exhibitions and courses
Life and the Oceans, Smithsonian Natural History Museum, October 2010
The Dublin Museum of Natural History (5 June 2013)
What does it mean to be human? Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, October 2010.
Tom Hubble, From the Big Bang to Life, University of Sydney, CCE course, 2011, Lectures 4 and 5.
Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, USA, Exhibitions: Origins of the Universe and the Origins of Life on Earth.
Riversleigh Fossil Centre, Mount Isa, Queensland Australia.
Primary sites visited
Lake Mungo, NSW Australia, January 2010
Dinosaur footprints at Gantheaume Point, near Broome Western Australia, July 2010
Stromatolites, Shark Bay, Western Australia, August 2014
Riversleigh Fossil Site, Queensland, Australia, May 2016
DVDs and internet sources
Australia, The Time Traveller’s Guide, Four part series, ABC TV, commencing 25 March 2012.
Becoming Human – Unearthing our earliest ancestors, WGBH, 2010.
David Attenborough, Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life, BBC 2009
David Attenborough, First Life, BBC documentary, 2011.
Charles Darwin, CromDVD, 2009.
David Christian's Big History Project: https://www.bighistoryproject.com/chapters/3#intro
The Lost Tribes of Humanity, BBC documentary presented by Professor Alice Roberts of the University of Birmingham (2016): www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07z8034/products
Articles in Scientific Journals
Dan Jones, “The Neanderthal within”, New Scientist, 03 March 2007.
Jamie Shreeve “The Evolutionary Road”, National Geographic, July 2010, 35.
Jamie Shreeve, “The birth of bipedalism 4.4 million years ago”, National Geographic, July 2010, 64.
Stephen S. Hall, “Last of the Neanderthals”, National Geographic, October 2008, published online at http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/10/neanderthals/hall-text
Ewen Callaway, “Neanderthal genome reveals interbreeding with humans”, New Scientist, 6 May 2010.
Kate Wong, “Human Evolution – First of Our Kind”, New Scientist, April 2012, 21.
“Ages of oldest rocks are off by millions of years”. New Scientist.7 April 2012, 9.
Sundry other articles in the Scientific American and National Geographic as referred to in the text.
Newspaper articles
“It’s enough to make young Fido’s brain go into a spin”, SMH, 28 July 2010.
“It’s not a shoe fetish, it’s natural selection”, SMH, 10 August 2010.
“Making something of junk earns geneticist top award”, SMH, 13 March 2012.
‘Tool time started a million years earlier for human ancestors”, SMH, 12 August 2010.
“There’s a little bit of Neanderthal in each of us”, SMH, 23.12.10, (from an article first appearing in the Journal Nature).
“Giving accepted prehistoric history the finger – DNA tests reveal new group of ancestors”, SMH, 23.12.10 (from an article appearing in the Journal Nature).
“Face to face with the 2 million-year-old missing link” (Australopithecus, sediba), SMH, 9 April 2010.
“Science gets new hand hold on ladder of human evolution”, SMH, 9 September 2011.
“Lost for 11,500 years – another part of the family” (the Red Deer Cave people), SMH, 15 March 2012.
“Cliff turns into crocodile rock”, SMH, 5 August 2010.
“Discovery challenges dawn of life”, SMH, 2 July 2010.
“The faces that only a mother could love”’, SMH, 12 August 2010.
“Are humans impossible to ape” (deals with DNA similarities), SMH, 27 August 2009.
“Horns aplenty: newly unearthed dinosaur was bone idol”, SMH, 21 September 2010.
“Dry spell almost killed off race”, SMH, 25-27 April 2008.
“Darwin out of Africa as DNA project charts immigration”, SMH, 5 February 2010.
“Scientists branch out to find missing links in the tree of life”, Carl Zimmer, New York Times, reproduced in the Health and Science segment of the Sydney Morning Herald, 7 June 2002.
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859), Penguin (2009)
Arthur T Gregor, Charles Darwin, Angus & Robertson, London, 1967.
Christopher Ralling, The Voyage of Charles Darwin, His autobiographical writings, BBC, London, 1978.
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Broadway Books, 2003.
Bill Mesler and H. James Cleaves II, A Brief History of Creation, Norton, London, 2016.
David Christian, Maps of Time – An introduction to Big History, University of California Press, London, 2004, 2011.
Marcelo Gleiser, Imperfect Creation – Cosmos, Life and nature’s Hidden Code, Black, Melbourne, 2010
Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth – The Evidence for Evolution, Bantam Press, London, 2009.
Richard Dawkins, The Magic of Reality – How we know what’s really true, Bantam Press, London, 2011.
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press, 1976, 1989, 2006.
Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype, Oxford University Press, 1982,1999.
Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, Norton, New York, 1987, 1986, 2006.
Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong, The Ancestor's Tale - A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2004, 2nd Edition, 2016.
Steve Jenkins, Life on Earth – The Story of Evolution.
Stuart Firestein, Ignorance – How it drives Science, OUP, New York, 2012.
Exhibitions and courses
Life and the Oceans, Smithsonian Natural History Museum, October 2010
The Dublin Museum of Natural History (5 June 2013)
What does it mean to be human? Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, October 2010.
Tom Hubble, From the Big Bang to Life, University of Sydney, CCE course, 2011, Lectures 4 and 5.
Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, USA, Exhibitions: Origins of the Universe and the Origins of Life on Earth.
Riversleigh Fossil Centre, Mount Isa, Queensland Australia.
Primary sites visited
Lake Mungo, NSW Australia, January 2010
Dinosaur footprints at Gantheaume Point, near Broome Western Australia, July 2010
Stromatolites, Shark Bay, Western Australia, August 2014
Riversleigh Fossil Site, Queensland, Australia, May 2016
DVDs and internet sources
Australia, The Time Traveller’s Guide, Four part series, ABC TV, commencing 25 March 2012.
Becoming Human – Unearthing our earliest ancestors, WGBH, 2010.
David Attenborough, Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life, BBC 2009
David Attenborough, First Life, BBC documentary, 2011.
Charles Darwin, CromDVD, 2009.
David Christian's Big History Project: https://www.bighistoryproject.com/chapters/3#intro
The Lost Tribes of Humanity, BBC documentary presented by Professor Alice Roberts of the University of Birmingham (2016): www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07z8034/products
Articles in Scientific Journals
Dan Jones, “The Neanderthal within”, New Scientist, 03 March 2007.
Jamie Shreeve “The Evolutionary Road”, National Geographic, July 2010, 35.
Jamie Shreeve, “The birth of bipedalism 4.4 million years ago”, National Geographic, July 2010, 64.
Stephen S. Hall, “Last of the Neanderthals”, National Geographic, October 2008, published online at http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/10/neanderthals/hall-text
Ewen Callaway, “Neanderthal genome reveals interbreeding with humans”, New Scientist, 6 May 2010.
Kate Wong, “Human Evolution – First of Our Kind”, New Scientist, April 2012, 21.
“Ages of oldest rocks are off by millions of years”. New Scientist.7 April 2012, 9.
Sundry other articles in the Scientific American and National Geographic as referred to in the text.
Newspaper articles
“It’s enough to make young Fido’s brain go into a spin”, SMH, 28 July 2010.
“It’s not a shoe fetish, it’s natural selection”, SMH, 10 August 2010.
“Making something of junk earns geneticist top award”, SMH, 13 March 2012.
‘Tool time started a million years earlier for human ancestors”, SMH, 12 August 2010.
“There’s a little bit of Neanderthal in each of us”, SMH, 23.12.10, (from an article first appearing in the Journal Nature).
“Giving accepted prehistoric history the finger – DNA tests reveal new group of ancestors”, SMH, 23.12.10 (from an article appearing in the Journal Nature).
“Face to face with the 2 million-year-old missing link” (Australopithecus, sediba), SMH, 9 April 2010.
“Science gets new hand hold on ladder of human evolution”, SMH, 9 September 2011.
“Lost for 11,500 years – another part of the family” (the Red Deer Cave people), SMH, 15 March 2012.
“Cliff turns into crocodile rock”, SMH, 5 August 2010.
“Discovery challenges dawn of life”, SMH, 2 July 2010.
“The faces that only a mother could love”’, SMH, 12 August 2010.
“Are humans impossible to ape” (deals with DNA similarities), SMH, 27 August 2009.
“Horns aplenty: newly unearthed dinosaur was bone idol”, SMH, 21 September 2010.
“Dry spell almost killed off race”, SMH, 25-27 April 2008.
“Darwin out of Africa as DNA project charts immigration”, SMH, 5 February 2010.
“Scientists branch out to find missing links in the tree of life”, Carl Zimmer, New York Times, reproduced in the Health and Science segment of the Sydney Morning Herald, 7 June 2002.