1.   In the next generation after Thales, Anaximander extended scientific myth to include human origins.

2.   The debate over human origins in nineteenth-century Britain provides a helpful example.

3.   The search for human origins in the material record, by the techniques of archaeology, could begin.

4.   As often happens in response to new discoveries in the contentious field of early human origins, other paleontologists differed in their interpretations of the findings.

5.   Before he eventually was reinstated, his case became an international battleground for the clash between scientific and Biblical accounts of human origins.

6.   A competitor, K. platyops is now taking center stage in the search for human origins.

7.   A novel computer-assisted technique for rebuilding parts of skeletons by digitally scanning scattered fossil fragments could help answer some niggling questions in the debate on human origins.

8.   But Johanson admits humans may never solve the question of human origins.

9.   Chris Stringer, a human origins expert at the Natural History Museum in London, says he still prefers the replacement theory.

10.   Controversy is not new to paleoanthropology, where explorer egos can be big, the scramble for money never-ending and the prospect of understanding human origins alluring but elusive.