A Critical Look at Doug LaPointe's "Top Evidences Against the Theory of Evolution" PART 2 Evidence #4: Homonid Fossil Specimens Finally, LaPointe actually returns to the subject of evolution itself, in this case the fossil record of homonid evolution. As with his other "top evidences," LaPointe's #4 evidence is shallowly argued and consistently fails to deal with the the most compelling fossil evidence for human evolution. In this section, we will look at some of LaPointe's more outrageous cl ...

Johanson finds 3.2 million-year-old Lucy 1974 Photo: X-ray photo of the "Lucy" skeleton In 1973, Donald Johanson was in the Afar, part of the Hadar region of Ethiopia, with the International Afar Research Expedition. He made a dramatic fossil find -- the leg bones of 3-million-year-old hominid. The bones' size and shape indicated that this individual walked upright, making it the oldest hominid on record to do so. This discovery helped Johanson raise enough money to continue the ...

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Human race may be 400,000 years older than thought Research into fossil jaw discovery adds new insight November 19, 1996 Web posted at: 12:00 p.m. EST (CNN) -- An African jaw bone is the earliest positively dated fossil in the human family, known as genus Homo, extending the age of the human race by about 400,000 years, newspapers reported Tuesday. The 2.33 million-year-old jawbone, found in 1994 near a scattering of crude stone tools in fossil sediments in t ...

DNA Shows Neandertals Were Not Our Ancestors For photos click here 7-11-97 University Park, Pa. -- A team of U.S. and German researchers has extracted mitochondrial DNA from Neandertal bone showing that the Neandertal DNA sequence falls outside the normal variation of modern humans. "These results indicate that Neandertals did not contribute mitochondrial DNA to modern humans," says Dr. Mark Stoneking, associate professor of anthropology at Penn State. "Neandertals are not our ancestors." ...

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Hominid Evolution from Australopithecus to Cro-Magnon A definitive survey of the the current state of knowledge regarding Human origins, with bibliography. The following survey and charts are copyright(c) 1997,1998 Ken Reeser, and are taken from the published and listed documents found in the bibliography. This project is not as yet complete, and the final version will contain changes to the text and the citations. I do not personally vouch for the accuracy of the information in the ...

Faculty and Staff Board of Directors Lucy's Story News and Newsletters Photography NEW! Safari to South Africa Last update 2/17/06Institute of Human Origins Mission Statement The Institute of Human Origins (IHO) conducts, interprets and publicizes scientific research on the human career. IHO's unique approach brings together scientists from diverse disciplines to develop integrated, bio-behavioral investigations of human evolution. Through research, education, and the sponsors ...

This gallery presents images of fossils from the research collections in the Division of Invertebrate Paleontology. We have attempted to showcase display quality individuals and spectacularly preserved specimens from our type and systematic collections. We have also included a sample of faunas from various fossil bonanzas (lagerstatten) represented in the Peabody collections. Specimen and locality information accompanies each image when possible. Photography by John R. Barbour, Krista Carlson, ...

Origin of Modern Humans Theory of Recent African Origin humans disperse from Africa to Eurasia by 1 million years ago populations then follow different evolutionary trajectories on different continents modern humans evolve only in Africa and disperse to Eurasia roughly 50,000-40,000 years ago, replacing Neanderthals and other non-modern Eurasians Here's the period of very recent African origin. The first two points are basically the ones that you saw already in the the ...

Dinosaurs | Egypt | Mesopotamia |Human Ancestors Leakey Ancestors The first exhibit in the In Hand Museum, this series of half-size skulls and fossil replicas aims to provide basic information about the various different species and the more significant fossils that play a part in the evolutionary history of modern humans. The series includes four extinct species, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus boisei, Homo erectus, and Homo neanderthalensis, as well as three modern skulls fo ...

PRIMATE TAXONOMY PRINTER FRIENDLY (PDF) Apes are no monkeys! The best way to insult a scientist working on chimpanzees is to say he/she is working with monkeys. We, humans, belong to the same family as the anthropoid (human-like) apes, also known as the "great" apes. No other animals are as close to us: at the DNA level we are 98.4 % identical to chimpanzees and bonobos. Here is a diagram of a primate evolutionary tree based on DNA comparisons. Humans ...

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Ch10. From Tree Shrew to Ape Ch11. The Earliest Hominids Ch12. The Lives of Early Hominids Ch13. The Ancients Ch14. The Moderns Ch15. The Evolution of Language The fossil record for human evolution provides a tantalizing, yet by nature fragmented, look at our biological and cultural ancestry. New discoveries constantly shift our understanding of our ancestral lineage, and seem to ask many more questions than they answer. This section deals directly with the fossil evidence for human origins, building on the foundations that evolutionary theory and primate studies provide.

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Prominent Hominid Fossils Sahelanthropus tchadensis Ardipithecus ramidus Australopithecus anamensis Australopithecus afarensis Kenyanthropus platyops Australopithecus africanus Australopithecus garhi Australopithecus aethiopicus Australopithecus robustus Australopithecus boisei Homo habilis Homo georgicus Homo erectus Homo ergaster Homo antecessor Homo heidelbergensis Homo neanderthalensis Homo floresiensis Homo sapiens This list includes fossils that are important for eith ...

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