Category: Human Origins
The Standard Story of Human Evolution: A Critical Look
Whatever Ardi was, everyone agrees the fossils was initially badly crushed and needed extensive reconstruction.
Do Fossils Demonstrate Human Evolution? Let’s Consider the Technical Literature
Far from “a nice clean example” of “gradualistic evolutionary change” that has “no gaps,” the fossil record shows a dramatic discontinuity.
Got These Bad Habits? Blame Neanderthals!
Neanderthal man, long extinct as a separate human group, now explains why we smoke and drink to excess…
New Nobel Laureate, Svante Pääbo, on the “Politics” of Paleontology and Humans Origins
These are welcome and candid observations, refuting notions that human origins is a fully objective area of research.
Fossil Friday: Darwinius, or How Wishful Thinking Makes a Missing Link
The media campaign lead to headlines that were not content with calling the fossil a missing link but simply “THE link” or “the eighth wonder of the world.”