Human Evolution
Humans and Chimps Alike?
Determining the genetic basis for differences between humans and chimps does not explain the origin of those differences. We share not a common ancestor but a common Designer.
Who Were Cave Men?
Genetics has clearly established that Neanderthals and Denisovans were fully human. Any physical differences should be viewed as nothing more than variations that can occur within the human race descended from Adam and Eve.
Fossils of Cave Men
Human fossils —and their stone tools—are strikingly similar everywhere they are found in the Lower and Middle Pleistocene layers. These people had large brow ridges, small chins, and receding foreheads.
Evolving Intelligence
Evolutionary anthropologists believe mental abilities had to evolve. Yet they note large gaps in this archaeological record across which it is difficult to discern whether mental evolution was gradual or punctuated by leaps and losses.
Human Evolution Topics
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Ape-Man
Can man’s ancestry be traced back to an ape-like ancestor? How much do we really have in common with primates? Have fossil ape-men been found?
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Australopithecus sediba
Australopithecus sediba is not an ancestor of man. The evidence properly interpreted shows that such fossils are either human or ape, not an in-between species.
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Cavemen
Was early man truly a stone-age, lumbering brute grunting his way toward primitive language? The evidence says the opposite—early man was intelligent!
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Hominids
The news often eagerly reports the discovery of another link in the supposed chain of hominid evolution. What do these finds really show?
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Homo Floresiensis
The Homo floresiensis of Indonesia, three-foot-tall people affectionately called hobbits, were fully human descendants of Adam and Eve.
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Human Origins
Humans have always been interested in our origins: where did we come from, and how did we get here? The Bible soundly answers the question of human origins.
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Lucy
Was the australopithecine Lucy—most famous of all the supposed human ancestors—really a precursor to modern man, or was she simply an ape?
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Neanderthal
Neanderthals are often treated as subhuman despite having all the hallmarks of full humanity. Except a few skeletal variances, they were very similar to us.
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Piltdown Man and Other Frauds
Piltdown man, and other paleoanthropological hoaxes and forgeries, call attention to the academic dishonesty that is sometimes pedaled as evolutionary evidence.
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What Makes Us Human?
Evolutionists say that man is just an animal, descended from an ape-like ancestor. However, humans show features that clearly separate us from animals.
Articles About Human Evolution
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Hobbits of Flores Were an Archaic Human Variety, Studies SuggestJuly 15, 2016 from Answers in Depth
Could hobbits be a dwarfed variety of Homo erectus, an archaic human whose presence in Southeast Asia, specifically Flores, has been demonstrated?
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Research PaperIs Your Allergy-Prone Immune System the Result of Neanderthal Influence?Feb. 18, 2016 from Answers in Depth
Three of the genes that control our immune system's first line of defense (and our allergies) bear a significant footprint from Neanderthals.
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Nov. 20, 2015 from Answers in Depth
Some believe the Gibbon-like fossil Pliobates cataloniae sheds light on the common ancestor supposedly shared by monkeys, apes, and humans.
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Research PaperWhich Came First—Teeth or Scales?Oct. 29, 2015 from Answers in Depth
That God created teeth, scales, and enamel at the same time is not an answer to evolutionists, so they claim each enameled fish fossil clarifies the confusion.
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Research PaperDid Humans Walk Like Chimps Up the Evolutionary Tree?Oct. 15, 2015 from Answers in Depth
An ape that can learn to walk on its hind legs or has some similarities to humans does not demonstrate that it is an evolutionary cousin of human beings.
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Sept. 12, 2015 from Answers in Depth
From God’s Word we know “nature” did not experiment “with how to evolve humans.” We do not believe evidence supports a Homo designation for Homo naledi.
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Research PaperAre Human Hands More Primitive Than Chimps’?Aug. 27, 2015 from Answers in Depth
Human hands differ markedly from those of long-fingered monkeys and arboreal apes like chimpanzees and orangutans. Did one evolve first?
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Aug. 10, 2015 from Answers in Depth
Evolutionists say scales and teeth share evolutionary history but wonder, “Which evolved first?” However, God created scales and teeth at the same time.
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Research PaperThe Latest on “Little Foot’s” Bid for Status as Humanity’s Most Ancient AncestorApril 16, 2015 from Answers in Depth
The date evolutionists report for Little Foot is old enough to keep it in the running for human ancestor, but there is no reason to consider the dates reliable.
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Technical Research PaperIs the Ledi Jaw the Missing Link in Human Evolution?March 21, 2015 from Answers in Depth
Evolutionists say the oldest human fossil, the Ledi jaw (LD 350-1), shows humans had evolved from ancestors like Lucy in East Africa 2.8 million years ago.
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Did Humans Evolve to Drink Alcohol?Dec. 18, 2014 from News to Know
Is raising the glass in a New Year’s toast a millions-of-years-old tradition?
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Semi-Technical Research PaperCan Neanderthal Noses Sniff Out the Secret Paths of Human Evolution?Dec. 17, 2014 from Answers in Depth
Were Neanderthals our cousins, our ancestors, or just our fellow human travelers in the post-Babel world?
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Mouse Memory Enhanced By Humanized “Language Gene”Sept. 25, 2014 from News to Know
With mice and men, practice makes perfect, but a mouse with a man’s FOXp2 gene achieves perfection faster.
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Is Homo floresiensis a Legitimate Human “Hobbit” Species?Aug. 19, 2014 from News to Know
Indonesia’s Flores Island was probably populated not by a Lilliputian human species but just ordinary people including a person with Down syndrome.
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Aug. 14, 2014 from News to Know
Uner Tan syndrome does not harbor the evolutionary “how” of human bipedality.
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Plants for the “Prehistoric” PalateAug. 9, 2014 from News to Know
Purportedly prehistoric people chose their veggies wisely even before they took up farming, archaeologists say.
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Piecing Together Human History, One Adaptation at a TimeJuly 12, 2014 from News to Know
In a new comprehensive review of humanity’s story, evolutionary anthropologists tell their tale of how hominins progressed up the evolutionary ladder.
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Did Bugs Give Ancestral Primates a Bigger Brain?July 8, 2014 from News to Know
Looking for bugs in all the right places bumped human brains up the evolutionary ladder, researchers say.
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Piecing Together Neanderthals at Sima de los HuesosJuly 5, 2014 from News to Know
The “mosaic” of traits in these people who left their fossilized remains in Ice Age sediment is consistent with the history found in God’s Word.
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Does a Paleo-Diet Hold the Evolutionary Key for Good Nutrition?July 3, 2014 from News to Know
Do modern man’s diseases spring from a mismatch between today’s diet and prehistoric anatomy?
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Did Humans Evolve Big Brains by Evolving Weak Muscles?June 5, 2014 from News to Know
Are weak muscles the price humans paid for evolving bigger better brains?
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Genetic Roots of Tooth Enamel Reveal Distinctive DesignMay 27, 2014 from News to Know
Do the genetic roots of primate tooth enamel track humanity’s evolutionary roots?
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Review: Your Inner ReptileApril 19, 2014 from Countering the Culture
The stars of the program were a group of reptiles that supposedly evolved into mammals, and the supporting cast consisted of baby opossums that gave their lives for the cause.
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Cosmos Review: “Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still”April 15, 2014 from Countering the Culture
What we read in God’s Word even helps us understand what we see in God’s world—including most of the scientific principles taught in this episode.
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Review: Your Inner FishApril 12, 2014 from Countering the Culture
Your Inner Fish, hosted on PBS by fish paleontologist Neil Shubin, blends fishy fables with embryology, genetics, and human anatomy.
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Ancient Footprints Place Humans in England Early in the Ice AgeFeb. 18, 2014 from News to Know
Did human feet in ancient time walk upon England’s river shore?
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Do Even-tempered Empathetic Bonobos Reflect Human Evolutionary History?Oct. 24, 2013 from Answers in Depth
Are empathetic bonobos our evolutionary soul-mates?
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Did Our Ancestors Evolve Into Humans Feet First?Oct. 21, 2013 from News to Know
Belief that bipedal locomotion was the key to human evolution gets flipped on its hands.
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Monogamy: Is it rooted in an evolutionary past?Aug. 5, 2013 from News to Know
Is human monogamy God’s idea, or merely an evolutionary byproduct?
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Research PaperWar or Peace? The Evolutionary History of Human NatureAug. 1, 2013 from Answers in Depth
A study by anthropologists with a different version of mankind’s evolutionary history threatens to return them to the arena to settle their differences.
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Scars of Evolution or of a Sin-Cursed World?March 2, 2013 from News to Know
The “Scars of Evolution” series featured speakers explaining how human evolution has produced an inferior product.
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Homo erectus Grew Teeth Like Modern Humans, Not Like ChimpsFeb. 2, 2013 from News to Know
A study comparing the teeth of modern humans, chimpanzees, and hominid fossils has found results that surprised evolutionary researchers.
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Wrinkled Fingers Get a Grip—but Not on EvolutionJan. 26, 2013 from News to Know
Most parents get asked by young children after a long soak in the tub, “Why do my fingers and toes get wrinkly in the water?” Until recently that remained a scientific mystery.
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Primate Midlife CrisisDec. 1, 2012 from News to Know
Primate psychology is said to imply an evolutionary basis for the human midlife crisis.
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Tie of Human Pregnancy to Bipedality Becomes ExtinctSept. 22, 2012 from News to Know
Convenient evolutionary answer tying human pregnancy to bipedality becomes extinct.
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Mixed Response for Early Modern Human Skull in AsiaSept. 8, 2012 from News to Know
Early modern human skull in Asia meets mixed response.
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Did the Altruistic "Snuggle for Survival" Help Humans Evolve?June 30, 2012 from News to Know
From the first cells to humans, the evolution of life has been a “snuggle for survival,” says Harvard professor Martin Nowak.
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Sweet ToothJune 16, 2012 from News to Know
“We have evolved to need coercion,” says Harvard biologist.
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Evolutionist Considers Skeptics a Threat to Human SurvivalJune 2, 2012 from News to Know
Famous evolutionist considers skeptics a threat to human survival.
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Complexity of Nazca Lines Defies Evolutionary AssumptionsApril 30, 2012
If you’ve heard of these geoglyphs, you know they’re quite the mystery to archaeologists and most other experts. Discovered by accident from an airplane in 1927, their purpose remains a conundrum.
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Paleoanthropologists Debate Identity of the DeerslayersMarch 24, 2012 from News to Know
Scientists still debate the identity of these bones after 20 years.
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Evidence For Continuing Human Evolution Arguably IrrelevantOct. 8, 2011 from News to Know
Big deal over small, arguably irrelevant changes
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Magazine Department ArticleTruth or Consequences?April 1, 2011 from Answers Magazine
This is not a “top ten” list prepared for a late-night comedian or a TV game show.
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Evolution Goes On?March 5, 2011 from News to Know
Darwinists are quick to insist that humans evolved. But do they think we’re still evolving?
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Human Jawbone Found: Doesn’t Fit Evolutionary StepsOct. 30, 2010
Experts in the ever-changing topic of human evolution thought they had most of it figured out—when our ancestors left Africa, the major evolutionary steps since then, etc. But a human jawbone discovered in China just doesn’t fit.
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Smithsonian Exhibition—Deception and AtheismJuly 26, 2010 from Answers Update
The purpose of this exhibit on the origin of man is not only to indoctrinate children and adults in evolution, but also atheism!
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Are Tibetans the Most Evolved Humans?July 3, 2010
Are Tibetans the most evolved humans? Just what does that mean?
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Similarities Between Humans and Plants Result of Evolution?Feb. 20, 2010
Creationists argue that similarities between humans and apes aren’t due to evolution. What about similarities between humans and plants?
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