Category: Human Origins
McBride Misstates My Arguments in Science and Human Origins
Paul McBride claims that I am arguing there is some kind of a “conspiracy” where paleoanthropologists willfully conspire to hide the truth from the public.
Read Your References Carefully: Paul McBride’s Prized Citation on Skull-Sizes Supports My Thesis, Not His
There’s a reason why McBride focuses his response so heavily on skull sizes — it’s a rare characteristic for which there’s some consistent kind of a trajectory over time.
Double Standards and a Single Variable: A Response to Paul McBride’s Review of Fossils in Science and Human Origins
McBride provided the pro-evolution blogosphere with something to talk about, and his review has since been hailed on a number of evolution blogs.
Homo erectus: A Highly Intelligent Seafaring Boatbuilder?
The point of all this is that other members of our genus Homo don’t represent unintelligent, non-human, ape-like forms.
The Genus Homo: All in the Family
In contrast to the australopithecines, the major members of our genus Homo — such as erectus and the Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) — are very similar to modern humans.