Category: Human Origins
Later Hominins: The Australopithecine Gap
Accompanying the praise of a “missing link” were what might be called retroactive confessions of ignorance.
The Fragmented Fossil Record of Early Hominins
Let’s examine some of the main early hominin fossils and the debates surrounding them.
What the Literature Says about Chromosomal Fusion and Why It Says It
If there was a fusion event, that doesn’t demonstrate human/ape common ancestry.
The Fragmented Field of Paleoanthropology
Paleoanthropologists face a number of daunting challenges in their quest to reconstruct a story of hominim evolution.
Human Origins and the Fossil Record: What Does the Evidence Say?
Evolutionary scientists commonly tell the public that the fossil evidence for the Darwinian evolution of humans from ape-like creatures is incontrovertible.