Category: Human Origins
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.
Return of the Rafting Primates: New Tarsier-Like Fossil Poses “Problem” for Early Primate Evolution
How and when did some primates finally make it to Africa, which was an island until as recently as 16 million years ago, to set in motion the emergence of the human species?
New Fossil Rewrites the Story of Human Evolution
“Instead of originating in Africa,” a Smithsonian spokesman said, “humanity clearly got its start here in Washington, D.C.”
Our Hairlessness: Another Evolutionary Enigma Suggestive of Intelligent Design
Darwinian evolution can’t just put things in the bank, with a view toward their future usefulness.