This post also appeared on The Advanced Apes Many moons ago I stumbled across Answers in Genesis’s reconstruction of the “Lucy” specimen (who belonged to the species Australopithecus afarensis, an […]
Today’s question comes from Cadell, a fellow Advanced Ape. He claims to be Canadian, but I’ve never heard him apologise for anything so I’ve always been skeptical about his heritage. […]
A few days ago I received about seventy-billion emails informing me people had started to comment on a post of mine from over the summer concerning Answers in Genesis’ knuckle […]
Todd C. Wood is a geneticist who is also a genuine, dyed in the wool young earth creationist. The co-existence of two such divergant positions is perplexing, made all the […]
Back before I settled into this blog I would just write for half an hour on whatever I fancied then give up. Going through some of these old posts I […]
Today’s misguided [mis]use of evolutionary anthropology is the “neanderthal autism theory” which posits the traits associated with autism are the result of additional “neanderthal genes” being expressed. In this sense […]
Homo habilis is the earliest member of our genus, living from 2.3-1.4 million years ago. It was the first species to use stone tools and the first to really look […]
The ascent of man is the story of how we came to be human, the story of the risen ape. Alas, as with many stories most of its iterations lack […]
Some species can be defined as “mosaic.” In other words, that they possess a combination of features from two other species. These species are particularly useful, revealing evolutionary relationships between […]
For those of you keeping up with this blog, I recently wrote about the discovery of fire being controlled by hominins 1 million years ago, ~700,000 years earlier than previously […]
