What makes us human?; Introduction to hominin evolution and the fossil record; Earliest ancestors (pre-australopiths): Sahelanthropus tchadensis; Orrorin tugenensis, Ardipithecus, Australopiths, Transition to Genus Homo: Homo erectus and dispersal, Homo sapiens and Archaic Humans: Middle Pleistocene hominins; Neandertals; Denisovans; Homo floresiensis; DNA evidence for admixture of contemporary groups; origins models: out of Africa and multiregional; human behavioral modernity; stone tool technologies and art in the archaeological record; Ice Ages and adaptation; settling of the Americas, Australia, and Polynesia