Category: Human Origins
Biologist John Mattick on Junk DNA, ENCODE, and Intelligent Design
It is not every day that we encounter such a humble attitude from a scientist who is prepared to candidly acknowledge the incompleteness in our understanding of the mechanics of evolution.
About "Y Chromosome Adam" and "Mitochondrial Eve"
A report in Science has grabbed media attention with its conclusion that the most recent common human male and female ancestors could have overlapped.
All Figured Out: How Human Monogamy Evolved
Ladies, if you feel secure in your marriage, you can go ahead and thank an ancient heritage from our ancestral past.
The Mystery of Human Origins Remains: More Doubts About Australopithecus sediba
“A. sediba is the wrong hominin in the wrong place at the wrong time to be our direct ancestor.”
The Fall of Australopithecus sediba: Controversy and Doubt Cloud Claims of Human Ancestry
“How, and why, did we evolve from apes?” This is the question posed to children by South African paleoanthropologist Lee Berger.