Tag: human origins
Jonathan Wells, Author of Zombie Science: Fossil Finds Only Confuse Human Origins
The day’s science headlines include a sensational announcement that our ancestors separated from apes not in Africa as previously thought, but in Eastern Europe.
Latest Homo naledi Bones Are Younger than Expected
In 1982, paleontologists Niles Eldredge and Ian Tattersall noted that it is a “myth that the evolutionary histories of living beings are essentially a matter of discovery.”
Research on Ancient DNA Could Test Predictions of Non-Darwinian Speciation Models
Independent groups of researchers (e.g., Hössjer et al. 2016), more or less skeptical of common ancestry, have suggested the alternative model of initial heterozygotic diversity.
Smithsonian’s Traveling Human Origins Exhibit Overstates the Case for Human Evolution
The exhibit may be headed to a public library near you.
What’s Wrong with This Video from PBS? Or Rather, What Isn’t?
There is no continuous stack of photos documenting our unbroken history all the way back to our “fishy ancestor” Tiktaalik.