Virtual Hominids

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Physical anthropologists may not have taken to the Internet with the same enthusiasm as have astronomers and planetary scientists, but the medium has great potential for teaching about human evolution. I found, for instance, a substantive page devoted to Neanderthals, those stocky, beetle-browed honimids who inhabited Europe and western Asia from about 150,000 to 35,000 years ago. Neandertals: A Cyber Perspective (thunder.indstate edu/~ramanank/index.html), created by Kharlena Maria R-amanan, of Indiana State University, draws on many sources to show us how they might have lived and even talked. In addition to being well laid out, the site offers a range of perspectives on our distant …