Tag: paleoanthropology

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 22, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, anthropology, common descent, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), Gutsick Gibbon, handy man, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, human evolution, human origins, Iron Age, Jackson Wheat, Kenya, Koobi Fora, Mary Leakey, monkeys, Olduvai Gorge, paleoanthropology, paleontology, Professor Dave, Tanzania, University of Texas, Wikipedia}

Fossil Friday: Stone Huts, Homo habilis, and Gutsick Gibbon

_{Günter Bechly
March 22, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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A PhD student of biological anthropology named Erika runs one of the more popular anti-creationist YouTube channels under her pseudonym Gutsick Gibbon. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 22, 2023

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, ABC News, afterlife, Arizona State University, bioRxiv, brain, burial, Chris Stringer, Dinaledi Chamber, documentary, eLife, evolution, fire, Homo naledi, Homo sapiens, human origins, humans, intelligence, La Trobe University, Lee Berger, María Martinón-Torres, micromorphology, Natural History Museum, Nature (journal), paleoanthropology, peer review, religion, skeletons, The Guardian, University of Western Australia}

Peer Review Rejects Claims that Homo naledi Buried Dead, Used Fire, and Scrawled on Cave Wall

_{Casey Luskin
September 22, 2023

Cultural Anthropology, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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I could not find a single reviewer who accepted the claims of the papers. They were harshly critical of claims of intentional burial of the skeletons. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 30, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Afar region, Australopithecus, brain, Ethiopia, face, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Homo, Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis, human origins, Koobi Fora, Ledi-Geraru, mandible, paleoanthropology, paleontology, phylogenetic analysis, Richard Leakey, University of Tübingen}

Fossil Friday: Homo rudolfensis, Another Contentious Homo

_{Günter Bechly
June 30, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Considering the checkered history of grandiose claims and controversies in paleoanthropology, some caution may be wise. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 9, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, asteroid, bats, Canada, carnivores, Chicxulub impact, dinosaurs, Disney, Early Paleocene, elephants, Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, mammals, Montana, North America, paleoanthropology, Paleocene, Paleogene, Plesiadapiformes, primates, rodents, sirenians, Triceratops}

Fossil Friday: Purgatorius and the Abrupt Origin of Primates

_{Günter Bechly
December 9, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Primates not only appeared suddenly, but their different subgroups of lemurs, tarsier, and simians all appeared at about the same time. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 24, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, apes, Charles Darwin, fossil record, Fossils and Human Evolution (series), gradualism, Harvard University, Henry Gee, hominids, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, humans, jaws, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, paleoanthropology, Richard Lewontin, Ronald Wetherington, skulls, Southern Methodist University, Stephen Jay Gould, Texas State Board of Education, textbooks}

Do Fossils Demonstrate Human Evolution? Let’s Consider the Technical Literature

_{Casey Luskin
October 24, 2022

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Far from “a nice clean example” of “gradualistic evolutionary change” that has “no gaps,” the fossil record shows a dramatic discontinuity. 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, Journal of Molecular Biology and Evolution, 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
Paul Nelson

Date
June 16, 2021

Categories
Archaeology
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arson, crime, cryptanalysis, cryptography, inference, insurance, intellectual property, intelligent design, logic, medicine, paleoanthropology, William A. Dembski}

What Got My Attention about Intelligent Design

_{Paul Nelson
June 16, 2021

Archaeology, Biology, Intelligent Design

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Bill Dembski pointed out that design detection, far from being an esoteric inference, lay in fact at the center of many normal human inquiries and activities. 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, Tim White}

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
Günter Bechly

Date
December 30, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, Alain Beauvilain, burial, Chad, Darwinian paradigm, femur, fossils, gorilla, hominid, human origins, Israel, John Hawks, mandible, Miocene, Misliya cave, paleoanthropology, Sahara Desert, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Stony Brook University}

#3 of Our Top Stories of 2018: For Paleoanthropology, Another Annus Horribilis

_{Günter Bechly
December 30, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology

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In 2001, French scientist Alain Beauvilain and three Chadian colleagues discovered a fossil cranium in the dunes of the Chadian Sahara Desert. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 16, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam Hochschild, Belgium, colonialism, Darwinian theory, evolution, George H.W. Bush, George Herbert Walker, history, human evolution, Human Zoos, indigenous people, John Hawks, John West, King Leopold, Maine, npr, paleoanthropology, Philippines, Politics, Racism, Royal Museum for Central Africa, scientific racisim, St. Louis World's Fair, Summer White House, Tervuren, U.S. Presidents, United States, Walker’s Point}

Human Zoos — International, Still Being Airbrushed

_{David Klinghoffer
October 16, 2018

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The Belgian human zoo sounds exactly like the St. Louis equivalent just a few years later. Read More ›