Author: Günter Bechly
New Fossil Human Species Thwarts Core Darwinian Predictions
I can hardly resist the temptation to say “I told you so,” or to jokingly remark, “Oops, they did it again.”
“Ice Cube” Study of Ediacaran Fossils Is Junk Science
The authors discuss the mode of preservation of Ediacaran fossils, and they document taphonomical laboratory experiments.
#3 of Our Top Stories of 2018: For Paleoanthropology, Another Annus Horribilis
In 2001, French scientist Alain Beauvilain and three Chadian colleagues discovered a fossil cranium in the dunes of the Chadian Sahara Desert.
#6 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Dickinsonia Probably Not an Ediacaran Animal
So, do high levels of cholesterol biomarkers really suggest an animal affinity of Dickinsonia?
Rewriting Human Origins, Ongoing in East Asia
The reason all these new discoveries are so noteworthy is not because they represent the usual progress of science.