Tag: Australopithecines

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 26, 2025

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, __recommended, animal butchery, Annals of New York Academy of Sciences, Australopithecines, Australopithecus, computer vision, fossil record, holotype, hominids, Homo (genus), Homo erectus, Homo habilis, human origins, humans, hunting, IFL Science, leopards, meat eating, morphological traits, Olduvai Gorge, predator–prey relationship, Rice University, stone-tool making, taphonomy}

Not a “Turning Point”: Study Finds Homo habilis Was Hunted as Prey

_{Casey Luskin
September 26, 2025

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The proposals of this study are very consistent with what we have long argued here. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 21, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Technology
Tagged
, Adam Brumm, artifacts, Asia, Australia, Australopithecines, Bruce Bower, Budianto Hakim, Flores, Flores man, Griffith University, hobbits, hominins, Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis, human body, human mind, Indonesia, Jakarta, National Research and Innovation Agency, Neanderthal art, Neanderthals, Science Alert, Science News, stone tools, technology, tools, Wallacea}

New Find: Stone Tools from 1 to 1.5 Million Years Ago

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 21, 2025

Archaeology, Technology

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The human body may have a history and human technology definitely has a history but the human mind does not. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science Education
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, Australopithecines, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus africanus, Casey Luskin, Ernst Mayr, Hall of Human Origins, Harvard University, human evolution, human exceptionalism, human origins, knuckle-walking, Lucy, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), New York Post, podcast, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Museum, transparency, Trump Administration}

Casey Luskin Calls on the Smithsonian to Get It Right on Human Origins

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 11, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Science Education

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The Smithsonian Institution has recently been called out by the Trump Administration for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 4, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, apes, Australopithecines, Down syndrome, evolutionists, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, habilines, hominin, Homo floresiensis, Homo habilis, Indonesia, microcephaly, modern humans, morphology, paleontology}

Fossil Friday: Hobbits Thwart Darwinian Predictions Again

_{Günter Bechly
October 4, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Evolutionists reliably tend to follow one foundational principle: “What must not be, cannot be!” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 29, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, Asia, Australopithecines, Chris Stringer, Darwin critics, Eurasia, Europe, evolutionary narrative, Fossil Friday (series), gene flow, gravity, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, Homo naledi, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, Israel, Levant, Misliya cave, modern humans, Natural History Museum, palaeoanthropology, Pleistocene, population genetics, uranium}

Fossil Friday: New Dating of Pleistocene Fossils Rewrites the Story of Human Evolution

_{Günter Bechly
March 29, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The most recent data on human fossils and their dating do not really support an evolutionary narrative from ape-like ancestors to modern humans. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 19, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Australopithecines, Australopithecus, brain, East Africa, empirical evidence, Fossil Friday (series), hominin fossils, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, human brain, humans, Journal of Human Evolution, Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, morphology, neuroanatomy, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania}

Fossil Friday: New Research Questions the Human Nature of Homo habilis

_{Günter Bechly
January 19, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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A consensus is scientifically worthless when it is driven by worldview bias and peer pressure rather than by an unbiased inference to the best explanation. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 5, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science Education
Tagged
, Athena, Australopithecines, biological origins, butterfly, California Science Center, Cambrian Explosion, chimpanzees, Christmas, David Coppedge, Discovery Institute, education, evolution, free speech, French Revolution, Genetics (journal), Günter Bechly, human brains, human origins, Human Origins Program, Human Zoos, humans, intelligent design, Jeffrey Schwartz, John West, mammals, mosasaurs, National Museum of Natural History, Niles Eldredge, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Racism, Richard Sternberg, Rick Potts, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, scientific racism, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Washington DC, Zeus}

Visitor’s Guide: At Nation’s Natural History Museum, Misinformation on Human Origins, and More

_{Casey Luskin
October 5, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Science Education

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Mammalian fossil exhibits at the Smithsonian claim that humans and all mammals descended from the “first mammal," perhaps Morganucodon. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 23, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Australopithecines, bones, Darwinian, evolutionists, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, handy man, hominin fossils, Homo ergaster, Homo habilis, human origins, humans, Louis Leakey, Lucy, missing links, Olduvai Gorge, paleoanthropologists, stone tools, Tanzania}

Fossil Friday: To Be or Not to Be Homo

_{Günter Bechly
June 23, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The fossil hominin Homo habilis was described 1964 by Louis Leakey and his colleagues from the 1.9 million year old Olduvai Gorge locality in Tanzania. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, Australopithecines, Australopithecus, BioLogos, chimpanzees, computational biology, Dennis Venema, Endogenous retroviruses, evolutionary creation, evolutionary mechanisms, fossil record, Francis Collins, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, humans, junk DNA, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Nature (journal), Nature Ecology and Evolution, Nature Reviews Genetics, Ola Hössjer, population genetics, pseudogenes, Queen Mary University London, Richard Buggs, S. Joshua Swamidass, theistic evolution, University of Stockholm, Washington University}

Does the Scientific Evidence Support Evolutionary Models of Human Origins?

_{Casey Luskin
June 12, 2023

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The fossil record shows a break between the australopithecines, supposedly directly ancestral to our genus, and the first humanlike members of the genus. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 28, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Australopithecines, birds, Cambrian Explosion, Casey Luskin, common descent, cynodonts, Darwin's Doubt, dinosaurs, Discovery Institute, evolution, fossil record, hominids, hominins, humans, intelligent design, John Hawks, land mammals, mammaliaforms, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, New York Times, Richard Sternberg, science denial, science teachers, Stephen Meyer, Therapsids, transitional fossils, walking whales, YouTubers}

Debunking “Professor Dave’s” Hit Piece Against Stephen Meyer

_{Günter Bechly
November 28, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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This YouTube video runs to about an hour and a quarter, so I will be answering him once again in a series, minute by minute. Read More ›