Tag: East Africa

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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), 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
Günter Bechly

Date
January 13, 2023

Categories
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, __testing, Afrotheria, East Africa, Egypt, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, George Gaylord Simpson, Paleogene, phylogenetics, Tanzania}

Fossil Friday: Fossil Hyraxes and the Abrupt Origin of Hyracoidea

_{Günter Bechly
January 13, 2023

Paleontology, Science

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Of course, it is only we “nitpicking” intelligent design proponents who point out such incongruences. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 10, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Australopithecus, Bernard Wood, Bible, Christianity Today, Darwinian evolution, East Africa, evolution, FOXP2, Francis Collins, genes, Genetics (journal), Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, human intelligence, human origins, Ian Tattersall, In Quest of the Historical Adam, In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), integration, mutations, Nature (journal), paleoanthropology, Review of Craig's In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Robin Williams, Sapiens (book), science and religion, The Language of God, Time Magazine, William Lane Craig, Yuval Noah Harari}

Missed Opportunity: Passing over Scientific Problems with Human Evolution

_{Casey Luskin
November 10, 2021

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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William Lane Craig’s rhetorical strategy is essentially to accept whatever mainstream evolutionary paleoanthropology says. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 22, 2021

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, African Savannah, brain, cathedrals, DNA, East Africa, evolution, evolutionary biologists, genetic mutations, gods, Homo sapiens, human beings, human rights, justice, laws, money, Neanderthals, paleoanthropologists, religion, Sapiens (book), Sapiens review, Yuval Noah Harari}

In Sapiens, Admissions and Overstatements about Human Evolutionary Origins

_{Casey Luskin
July 22, 2021

Human Origins and Anthropology

7}

Harari’s conjecture — “There are no gods” — forms the very basis for everything he says in the rest of the book. Read More ›

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Date
July 31, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, biological novelty, bioRxiv, cichlid fish, Darwin Devolves, devolution, East Africa, Ernst Mayr, evolution, evolutionary biology, finches, Lake Victoria, Michael Behe, Nature Scientific Reports, polar bears, species, taxpayers, The Conversation, The Edge of Evolution}

Time to Put a Lid on Cichlid Evolution Propaganda

_{Science & Culture
July 31, 2019

Evolution

8}

If cichlid evolution is a central paradigm in evolutionary biology, then Darwinism’s sphere of explanatory inference is too small to matter. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 28, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, China, Darwinian theory, East Africa, East Asia, Ethiopia, Europeans, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, human origins, India, Israel, Middle Palaeolithic, Middle Pleistocene, Misliya cave, modern humans, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, New Scientist, Racism, rewriting}

Rewriting Human Origins, Ongoing in East Asia

_{Günter Bechly
November 28, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology

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The reason all these new discoveries are so noteworthy is not because they represent the usual progress of science. Read More ›