SahelanthropustchadensiscraniumleftsideintheMuse Type post Author Casey Luskin Date January 12, 2026 CategoriesEvolutionHuman Origins and Anthropology Tagged , bipedalism, Chad, chimpanzees, common ancestor, Haaretz, hominins, human origins, John Hawks, Journal of Human Evolution, knuckle-walking, Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Leipzig, Marine Cazenave, Martin Pickford, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Michael Brunet, Milford H. Wolpoff, Nature (journal), New Scientist, New York University, paleoanthropologists, paleontology, Rhianna Drummond-Clarke, Roberto Macchiarelli, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Science Advances, Scientific American, Scott Williams, Toumaï, trees, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Washington Post New Paper Fails to Settle Debate Over Bipedalism in Sahelanthropus tchadensis Casey Luskin January 12, 2026 Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology 8 Many have called this fossil a human ancestor that lived at about 7 million years ago, around the time of our supposed most recent common ancestor with chimps. Read More ›
Hippo_pod_edit Type post Author Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Date March 15, 2024 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionIntelligent DesignPaleontology Tagged , Africa, brachiopods, bryozoans, cephalopods, Charles Darwin, corals, Ernst Mayr, evolution, fossil record, genera, Georges Cuvier, ghost lineages, hippos, intelligent design, Louis Agassiz, Martin Pickford, National Geographic, natural selection, species, stasis, trilobites Notes on the Mysterious Origin of Hippos Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig March 15, 2024 Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology 3 The family Hippopotamidae appears abruptly in the fossil record — like all the other groups that I have so far investigated in detail. Read More ›
Toumaï Type post Author Casey Luskin Date February 8, 2021 CategoriesHuman Origins and Anthropology Tagged , bipedalism, chimpanzees, femur, gorillas, human ancestor, human origins, John Hawks, Journal of Human Evolution, Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Martin Pickford, New Scientist, Roberto Macchiarelli, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, University of Poitiers, University of Tübingen Newly Published Analysis Refutes Claims that Sahelanthropus tchadensis Was Human Ancestor Casey Luskin February 8, 2021 Human Origins and Anthropology 7 What happened to the femur? Did the original discoverers hold on to the bones to stonewall an analysis with a conclusion they didn’t like? Read More ›
