Human Evolution
There are only three ways to make an ape-man: 1) make an ape more human-like, 2) make a human more ape-like, or 3) fraudulently mix the two together. Homo naledi, a new fossil species discovered in a South African cave chamber, is another example of trying to make an ape more human-like.
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.
News About Human Evolution
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April 19, 2018 from Ken Ham’s Blog
The fossil record shows a great deal of diversity among post-Flood humans (scientists haven’t found any pre-Flood humans as of yet).
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March 19, 2018 from Ken Ham’s Blog
The famous evolutionary primatologist Jane Goodall studied chimpanzees in Tanzania. She originally thought they were nice, but she learned otherwise.
Articles About Human Evolution
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Oct. 11, 2017 from Answers Research Journal
According to the evolutionary concept of encephalization, endocranial volume increases from more primitive species to more developed ones.
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Oct. 6, 2017 from Answers in Depth
Scientists report the biochemical footprint of a particular sugar polymer—a type that modern humans cannot make—has been found in an ancient African fossil.
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Oct. 4, 2017 from Answers Research Journal
I am pleased to see that the young-earth creation (YEC) critic, Stefan Frello, seeks to continue our exchange of ideas.
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Oct. 4, 2017 from Answers Research Journal
This is a short reply to Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson’s response to my comment to his work on human mtDNA.
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Aug. 23, 2017 from Answers Research Journal
Frello criticizes papers that he hasn’t carefully read. Not surprisingly, his objections turn out to be unfounded.
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Aug. 23, 2017 from Answers Research Journal
Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson claims to have documented a recent origin of humans, using mitochondrial DNA. A reader questions the results.
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July 30, 2017 from Answers in Depth
Amphioxus is an “obvious” link between invertebrates and vertebrates for those who believe they must be linked by a shared evolutionary ancestor.
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July 15, 2017 from Essays on Origins: Creation vs. Evolution
Evolutionists insist that the underlying similarity of all animals, including man, is compelling evidence for their evolution from a common ancestor.
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June 21, 2017 from Answers Research Journal
This study provides further evidence that Homo naledi is indeed not a member of the human holobaramin, but related rather to australopiths.
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May 1, 2017 from Answers Magazine
The discovery of an ancient man entombed in the Alps’ ice was one of the greatest finds of the last century.
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April 6, 2017 from Answers in Depth
Are human feet the foundational distinction between knuckle-walking apes and us? How did we learn to walk this way?
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Feb. 15, 2017 from Answers Research Journal
Baraminic analyses suggest that both H. naledi and H. floresiensis are not part of the human holobaramin.
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Feb. 15, 2017 from Answers Research Journal
Recent articles have questioned the validity of hominin baraminology studies that place Homo naledi in the human holobaramin.
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Feb. 15, 2017 from Answers Research Journal
The best hypothesis for the origin of the H. naledi assemblage in the Dinaledi Chamber is still intentional burial/disposal by other H. naledi.
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Dec. 28, 2016 from Answers Research Journal
Re-analysis of O’Micks’ character sets show that the lack of baraminic distance correlations is likely the result of a small taxon sample.
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Dec. 28, 2016 from Answers Research Journal
Baraminology is a holistic science and should distinguish between more or less important morphological characteristics.
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Dec. 16, 2016 from Answers in Depth
A study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the modern practice of Caesarean section is rapidly altering human evolution.
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Oct. 26, 2016 from Answers Research Journal
With the inclusion of 37 postcranial morphological characters, this work attempts to reassess the baraminic classification of H. naledi.
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In-Depth ArticleHobbits 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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In-Depth ArticleIs 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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Jan. 1, 2016 from Answers Magazine
The Naledi skeletons in South Africa, whose discovery was announced last September, represent the latest species declared to be a likely human relative.
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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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In-Depth ArticleWhich 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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In-Depth ArticleDid 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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In-Depth ArticleAre 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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In-Depth ArticleThe 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 In-Depth ArticleIs 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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In-Depth ArticleDid Humans Evolve to Drink Alcohol?Dec. 18, 2014 from Answers in Depth
Is raising the glass in a New Year’s toast a millions-of-years-old tradition?
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Semi-Technical In-Depth ArticleCan 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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In-Depth ArticleMouse Memory Enhanced By Humanized “Language Gene”Sept. 25, 2014 from Answers in Depth
With mice and men, practice makes perfect, but a mouse with a man’s FOXp2 gene achieves perfection faster.
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In-Depth ArticleIs Homo floresiensis a Legitimate Human “Hobbit” Species?Aug. 19, 2014 from Answers in Depth
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 Answers in Depth
Uner Tan syndrome does not harbor the evolutionary “how” of human bipedality.
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In-Depth ArticlePlants for the “Prehistoric” PalateAug. 9, 2014 from Answers in Depth
Purportedly prehistoric people chose their veggies wisely even before they took up farming, archaeologists say.
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In-Depth ArticlePiecing Together Human History, One Adaptation at a TimeJuly 12, 2014 from Answers in Depth
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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In-Depth ArticleDid Bugs Give Ancestral Primates a Bigger Brain?July 8, 2014 from Answers in Depth
Looking for bugs in all the right places bumped human brains up the evolutionary ladder, researchers say.
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In-Depth ArticlePiecing Together Neanderthals at Sima de los HuesosJuly 5, 2014 from Answers in Depth
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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In-Depth ArticleDoes a Paleo-Diet Hold the Evolutionary Key for Good Nutrition?July 3, 2014 from Answers in Depth
Do modern man’s diseases spring from a mismatch between today’s diet and prehistoric anatomy?
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In-Depth ArticleDid Humans Evolve Big Brains by Evolving Weak Muscles?June 5, 2014 from Answers in Depth
Are weak muscles the price humans paid for evolving bigger better brains?
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In-Depth ArticleGenetic Roots of Tooth Enamel Reveal Distinctive DesignMay 27, 2014 from Answers in Depth
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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