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.

Articles About Human Evolution

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Magazine Article
Making the Leap from Ape to Adam

Oct. 27, 2024 from Answers Magazine
If you just connect all the dots, isn’t it easy to see how the first humans could evolve from a shared ancestor with the apes?
Magazine Department Article
Close, But Not Close Enough—Fingerprints

Aug. 18, 2024 from Answers Magazine
Evolutionists claim that this similarity between humans and primates is evidence of common ancestry. Closer study verifies differences that point to a common Designer.
Magazine Department Article
The Importance of Missing Links

Jan. 1, 2023 from Answers Magazine
No matter how hard they try, scientists can’t connect the missing links in human evolution. Why not?
Is Sahelanthropus Our Seven-Million-Year-Old Bipedal Ancestor?

Sept. 16, 2022
Is Sahelanthropus closer to a chimp or a human?
Magazine Department Article
Ötzi the Iceman: A Biblical Perspective

Feb. 6, 2022 from Answers Magazine
The discovery of an ancient man entombed in the Alps’ ice was one of the greatest finds of the last century.
Dragon Man, the Newest Human “Cousin”?

Aug. 14, 2021
Evolutionists suggest Chinese “Dragon Man” is a 100,000-year-old hominid while biblical creationists understand the discovery in light of post-Babel dispersion.
Thinking Critically About “Ape-Man” Messages

March 2, 2021
“Four-million-year-old fossil offers proof of human evolution!” Here’s how to sort through such claims with biblical, critical thinking.
Schlitzie the “Missing Link” & Early Darwinian Sideshows

June 27, 2020
A chapter in the sad history of early Darwinian propaganda: the microcephalic Schlitze was paraded in circuses as a “missing link” in the early 20th century.
Book Chapter
Ancient Man and Intelligence: Were People Originally Dumb Brutes or Brilliant?

Dec. 7, 2019 from The New Answers Book 4
Our modern society believes we are just reaching the height of human intelligence. If we accept this evolutionary view, what do we do with the biblical account?
Book Chapter
Cavemen . . . Really?

Nov. 16, 2019 from The New Answers Book 4
Perhaps, in fact, it’s our discomfort with not knowing what to do with cavemen that makes us laugh. So just who were they?
Ape-Men, Adam, and the Gospel

July 27, 2019, pp. 111–122
Creationists and evolutionists look at the same fossil and genetic evidence, but they interpret it very differently because of different starting assumptions.
The Evolutionary Problem with Grandmothers

April 16, 2019
In an evolutionary worldview, human grandmothers are a bit of a puzzle. Why would evolution favor human grandmothers?
Human Ingenuity: Outsmarting Evolutionary Misconceptions

Jan. 30, 2018
When we start with God’s Word, however, we know that humans are not necessarily getting smarter as time goes on. Adam and Eve were created in God’s image (Genesis 1:27), and originally we had perfect brains and intelligence (Genesis 1:31; Deuteronomy 32:4).
In-Depth Article
Does Human Evolutionary History Hang on a Sugar Tree?

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.
Book Chapter
If We Resemble Apes, Does That Mean We Evolved from Apes?

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.
On the (Evolutionary) Road to Morocco?

June 8, 2017
Fossils of Homo sapiens found in a cave in Morocco are clearly human, not “ape-men.” But are they really 315,000 years old?
In-Depth Article
Are Humans Evolving Through Caesarean Sections?

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.
In-Depth Article
Hobbits of Flores Were an Archaic Human Variety, Studies Suggest

July 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?
In-Depth Article
Is 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.
Magazine Department Article
New Find . . . Same Question

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.
Are There Transhumans in Our Future?

July 9, 2015
Transhumanism is the belief or theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current limitations. Is there any reason to fear advances in humans?
In-Depth Article
Mouse 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.
In-Depth Article
Is 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.
In-Depth Article
Quadrupedal People Do Not Walk Like Chimpanzees

Aug. 14, 2014 from Answers in Depth
Uner Tan syndrome does not harbor the evolutionary “how” of human bipedality.