This subfield studies the mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human adaptability and variation, primatology, and the fossil record of human evolution.

General Anthropology links

• The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science
• American Association of Physical Anthropologists
• The Biological Anthropology Web
• UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology (Good paleontology and geology information)
• Dr. O’Neil’s Anthropology Tutorials

Forensic Anthropology

• All-About-Forensic-Science.Com
• American Board of Forensic Anthropology
• American Academy of Forensic Sciences
• ForensicAnthro.com Educational Resources
• forensicanthro.eu Forensic Anthropology News
• Maples Center for Forensic Medicine at the University of Florida
• What is Forensic Anthropology? (Forensic Anthropology Center, The University of Tennessee)

Genetics

• DNA from the Beginning (An animated primer on the basics of DNA, genes and heredity by the Dolan, DNA Learning Center)
• The Human Genome Project
• Primer on Molecular Genetics (Part of the Human Genome Project website)
• NOVA Ghost in Your Genes – Epigenetic Therapy 
• NOVA Online – Tracing Ancestry with MtDNA
• NOVA Online – DNA Fingerprint Lab (An animated exercise on how and what is done at a DNA Fingerprint lab)
• Blood Typing Exercise (Nobel e-museum has information on Nobel prize winners and their projects** excellent site)
• Biotechnology and FAQs
• National Cancer Institute Publications Locator Home

 Human Evolution

• Talk Origins Archive  (Updates in paleoanthropology and discussion between evolution and creationism)
• Leakey Foundation (News, events, discoveries and projects in paleoanthropology and primatology)
• The Smithsonian Human Institution Human Origins Program  (A site with visuals of various hominin remains)
• Becoming Human (The Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University)
• NOVA – Neandertals on Trial  (comparison of Neandertals and anatomically modern H. sapiens)
• The Cave of Lascaux, France  (A virtual tour of the famous Upper Paleolithic Cave)
• The Cave of Chauvet – Pont- D’Arc, France (A virtual tour of an Upper Paleolithic Cave)
• 15 Answers to Creationist Questions, Scientific American Journal – July 2002

Osteology

• E-Skeletons Project website  (Enables you to view the bones of a human, gorilla, and baboon and gather information about them from the osteology database at University of Texas at Austin)
• The Skull Module from CSU Chico  (A visual and description of the bones found in the human skull)
• Anatomy of the Human Body  (An online book by Henry Gray)

Primatology

• International Directory of Primatology (maintained by Primate Info Net at the National Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
• International Journal of Primatology
• Journal of Medical Primatology
• Primatologist Biographies  (maintained by Primate Info Net at the National Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
• Primatology.net (current news and reports and article summaries on all areas of primatology)
• Primate Info Net (Library and Information Service National Primate Research Center – University of Wisconsin, Madison)
• The Jane Goodall Institute– for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation
• Koko.org – The Gorilla Foundation
• Great Ape Trust | Bonobos, Orangutans and the study of ape language, tools and Intelligence  (Home of Kanzi and other famous apes)
• Language Research Center – Georgia State University  (studies on chimpanzees, rhesus macaques, and capuchins)
• Duke University Lemur Center
• Living Links: A Center for the Advanced Study of Ape and Human Evolution (Emory University)
• Leakey Foundation (News, events, discoveries and projects in primatology and paleoanthropology)