Tag: human origins
Does Science Rule Out a First Human Pair? Geneticist Richard Buggs Says No
One of the claims Dennis Venema makes in his book is that the effective population size of our last common ancestor with chimps has never been fewer than 10,000.
13-Million-Year Old Skull from Kenya – A Human Ancestor? Not Likely
You’ll forgive me for being a little bit jaded by now at news like this.
Fossil Footprints from Crete Deepen Controversy on Human Origins
It looks like 2017 could become some kind of genuine annus horribilis for the established scientific consensus on human evolution.
On Human Origins, the Need for Theory Evaluation
There are conflicting evidences, a lack of details, opposing hypotheses held with great confidence, and a wide range of explanatory mechanisms that are routinely used as needed.
The Human-Ape Missing Link — Still Missing
Research into human origins, we mean the entire field, is a mess.