Category: Human Origins
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.
A Big Bang Theory of Homo
If human beings evolved from ape-like creatures, what were the transitional species between ape-like hominins and the truly human-like members of the genus Homo found in the fossil record?
Later Hominins: The Australopithecine Gap
Accompanying the praise of a “missing link” were what might be called retroactive confessions of ignorance.