Tag: Australopithecus afarensis

Bare foot of young woman walking at home, closeup

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Author
Stuart Burgess

Date
February 23, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anatomy, ankle fusion, ankle performance, apes, arched feet, arches, Arches National Park, Australopithecus afarensis, Carol Ward, cuboid bone, cuneiform bone, D. J. Meldrum, E. E. Sarmiento, Energy, engineering, Ethiopia, fibula, flat feet, foot, Foot and Ankle International, football, fossils, Hadar, Homo sapiens, HOMO: Journal of Comparative Human Biology, human foot, humans, irreducibly complex systems, jig, keystones, lateral arch, linkage system, lower body, Lucy, medial arch, midfoot, Nathan Lents, P. J. Mitchell, Roman arch, shock, squash, talus bone, tibia, Utah}

Appreciating the Irreducible Complexity of the Human Foot

_{Stuart Burgess
February 23, 2026

Anatomy, Intelligent Design

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In the fossil record there are no transitional forms between the arched feet of humans and the flat feet of apes. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 3, 2025

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Australopithecus afarensis, bipedalism, Casey Luskin, co-option, flowering plants, fossil record, God of the gaps, Homo (genus), humans, ID the Future, intelligence, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Jacob Vasquez, junk DNA, knuckle-walkers, mammals, naturalism, pelvis, scientific knowledge, type III secretion system}

Casey Luskin Answers Common Objections to Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 3, 2025

Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Dr. Luskin highlights a “large unbridged gap” in the fossil record between ape-like species like Lucy and human-like species. 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, 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
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Psychology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, animals, apes, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus africanus, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, cruelty, Dogs, Donald Trump, Ernest Hemingway, gorillas, human exceptionalism, human origins, humans, Journal of Human Evolution, Lucy, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), New York Post, paleoanthropologists, people, psychology, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Smithsonian Institution, wokeness}

Luskin in the NY Post Calls Out Smithsonian on Human Origins

_{David Klinghoffer
July 28, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Psychology

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The museum misinforms visitors about how humans are so very, very close to non-human creatures. Equating humans with non-humans isn't humane. It's the opposite. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 31, 2022

Categories
Biology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, ad hominem, Australopithecines, Australopithecus afarensis, Crete, Dave Farina, evolution, fossils, geologists, Graecopithecus, hominins, Homo sapiens, human evolution, intelligent design, John Hawks, Lucy, Miocene apes, Neanderthals, paleontologists, Professor Dave, Science Uprising, YouTube videos}

Examining “Professor Dave’s” Absurd Attack on Casey Luskin

_{Günter Bechly
May 31, 2022

Biology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The attack on Luskin is the most ludicrous part of the non-professor’s video, with Farina claiming at one point that Luskin perpetrated “a criminal offense.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 29, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, American Museum of Natural History, Australopithecus afarensis, bipedalism, chimpanzees, Darwin critics, Darwinists, fossil record, Günter Bechly, hominins, homoplasy, human origins, humans, ID the Future, knuckle-walking, last common ancestor, Miocene apes, rewriting, Sahelanthropus, Science (journal)}

#4 Story of 2021: Human Origins Research Is a Big Mess

_{Günter Bechly
December 29, 2021

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Considering the number of fossils attributed to the human lineage, an absence of such fossils for the great African ape lineages raises an obvious suspicion. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 10, 2021

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, American Museum of Natural History, Australopithecus afarensis, bipedalism, chimpanzees, Darwin critics, Darwinists, fossil record, Günter Bechly, hominins, homoplasy, human origins, humans, ID the Future, knuckle-walking, last common ancestor, Miocene apes, rewriting, Sahelanthropus, Science (journal)}

Scientists Conclude: Human Origins Research Is a Big Mess

_{Günter Bechly
May 10, 2021

Human Origins and Anthropology

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Considering the number of fossils attributed to the human lineage, an absence of such fossils for the great African ape lineages raises an obvious suspicion. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 30, 2020

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, anagenesis, Ann Gauger, annus horribilis, Associated Press, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus anamensis, Bernard Wood, BIO-Complexity, Denisovans, Ethiopia, genetic diversity, gradualism, Günter Bechly, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, Nature (journal), Ola Hössjer, paleoanthropology, population genetics, primates, punctuated equilibrium, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Magazine}

A Disappointing Decade for the Study of Human Evolution

_{Casey Luskin
April 30, 2020

Human Origins and Anthropology

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Perhaps in ten years we’ll be having this conversation again — and perhaps at that time the Smithsonian Institution will give us all a more objective analysis of the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
February 25, 2020

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, American Museum of Natural History, Ann Gauger, Ardipithecus ramidus, Australopithecus afarensis, Bernard Wood, Big Bang, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Genetics and the Origin of Species (book), George Gaylord Simpson, George Washington University, Günter Bechly, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, Homo sapiens, human origins, Ian Tattersall, intelligent design, macroevolution, Neo-Darwinism, neutral evolution, On the Origin of Species, Phillip E. Johnson, punctuated equilibrium, randomness, Richard Buggs, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Wikipedia}

Neo-Darwinism and the Big Bang of Man’s Origin

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
February 25, 2020

Human Origins and Anthropology

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Proponents of the ruling theory tell us that we are all undoubtedly intelligent enough to fully grasp their theory, as long as we concur with it. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 29, 2019

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, Australopithecines, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus anamensis, Charles Darwin, Darwinian gradualism, David Gelernter, Ethiopia, Galápagos Islands, Germany, Homo (genus), Lucy, Modern evolutionary synthesis, mount improbable, National Geographic, Natural History Museum, Neo-Darwinism, Niles Eldredge, paleontology, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, Sabine Hossenfelder, stasis, Stephen Jay Gould, stickleback fish, Stuttgart, vertebrate}

#4 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Apeman Waves Goodbye to Darwinian Gradualism

_{Günter Bechly
December 29, 2019

Human Origins and Anthropology

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A few days ago a sensational new paleontological discovery made headlines around the globe. Read More ›