Hominids

• Lord of the Tools

  April 25, 2009 from News to Know

  “How could a hominid with a brain the size of a grapefruit craft tools?” asks ScienceNOW’s Elizabeth Culotta.

• Toeing the Line

  March 7, 2009 from News to Know

  A fossilized footprint found in Kenya—thought to be 1.5 million years old—doesn’t look its age.

• Early Humans Born With Big Brains

  Nov. 22, 2008

  It’s yet another human ancestor—but, once again, with a larger brain than us.

• Bones Don’t Add Up For Palauan Hobbits

  Sept. 6, 2008 from News to Know

  News broke last week of the misinterpretation of Palauan bone fragments, which had led to the misidentification of a modern human as something else. It isn’t the first time!

• Hominid Fossil Finder Disputes Age of His Find

  Sept. 6, 2008

  After years of thorough dispute from creationist circles, the controversial Toumai skull—said to be the remains of an apeman—is now under another attack from evolutionists.

• Cro-Magnon Man DNA Similar to that of Modern Humans

  July 19, 2008

  Cro-Magnon Man, you may be 28,000 years old, but you haven’t changed a bit!

• First Walking Human Determined to be Six Million years Old

  March 29, 2008

  A new analysis of the bones of a human “ancestor” suggests it was the earliest known hominin to walk upright, reports National Geographic News.

• Magazine Department Article

  Hominid Hopes Dashed

  Jan. 28, 2008 from Answers Magazine

  For several years, evolutionists have hailed the find nicknamed Toumai as the missing link between humans and an ape-like ancestor.

• Missed the Memo; Forgot to Leave Africa

  Nov. 17, 2007

  A new fossil found in Kenya’s Rift Valley is shaking up the latest hypotheses about alleged ancient apes and their postulated connection to modern humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas.

• Review of New Fossils Found in Georgia

  Sept. 22, 2007 from News to Know

  A team reporting this week in the journal Nature announces the discovery of the remains of four individuals found at the site of a medieval castle at Dmanisi in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

• Living With Your Ancestors

  Aug. 11, 2007

  Evolutionists are busy rewriting the story of the evolution of humankind becuase of two fossils from Kenya.

• Magazine Department Article

  The Mother Lode of Ancestral Moms

  July 30, 2007 from Answers Magazine

  Could it be that many evolutionists are scrambling to counter the increasing influence of the creation and intelligent design movements in today’s culture?

• Magazine Department Article

  Kenyan Controversy

  July 1, 2007 from Answers Magazine

  Some well-intentioned but misguided Christians in Kenya have raised opposition to a new evolution display in their country’s National Museum.

• Magazine Department Article

  Skull Scratching

  July 1, 2007 from Answers Magazine

  In the evolutionary worldview, people have been slowly evolving—and improving—over millions of years. According to biblical anthropology, however, humans were created on the sixth day of creation.

• Skull Exhibits Confusing Characteristics

  Jan. 20, 2007

  A skull discovered in Romania is causing some head-scratching among evolutionists because it includes “traits normally associated with more ancient species” even though it is “undeniably a Homo sapiens specimen.”

• Magazine Department Article

  Read the Fine Print

  Nov. 20, 2006 from Answers Magazine

  While headlines often trumpet “Scientists find skull of human ancestor", you need to read on.

• The Toumaï Skull: Ape or Human Ancestor?

  Aug. 30, 2006

  In 2001, a chimp-sized cranium (lacking the lower jaw) was discovered in the Djurab Desert in the central African nation of Chad.

• Fact Versus Fiction: The Recent Ethiopian Fossils

  April 17, 2006

  The Asa Issie fossil discovery is just one more of evolutionists false interpretations of the fossil record in an attempt to “prove” an animal origin for humans.

• Hominid Fever

  March 11, 2005

  It seems these days that there are precious few ordinary human or ape fossils unearthed, rather they all have to be a missing link between the two.

• Research Paper

  New Hominin Skull from Kenya

  Aug. 1, 2001, pp. 8–9

  A new fossil discovery that is ‘dated’ as contemporaneous with Australopithecus afarensis in the middle Pliocene has caused paleoanthropologists to re-evaluate their interpretations.

• New Hominid Skull from Kenya

  April 16, 2001

  The new fossil skull is quite distinct from A. afarensis, and has been given a new genus and species assignment--Kenyanthropus platyops, “flat-faced human from Kenya.”

• Research Paper

  How Different is the Cranial-Vault Thickness of Homo Erectus from Modern Man?

  April 1, 2000, pp. 10–13

  The physical features which distinguish 'primitive' from modern man can be accounted for by non-evolutionary explanations.

• Research Paper

  The Non-Transitions in ‘Human Evolution’—on Evolutionists’ Terms

  Nov. 1, 1999, pp. 10–12

  Commonly, apologists for evolution put up a bold front and try to deny that the tree of evolution is full of holes (or, more accurately, is mostly holes with just twigs at the end). It is therefore instructive whenever an article appears that is written by evolutionists who candidly acknowledged the major discontinuities in (alleged) evolutionary sequences.

• Technical Research Paper

  The Rise and Fall of Skull KNM–ER 1470

  Nov. 1, 1999, pp. 96–100

  Often in the history of evolutionary theory, early preliminary reports of new fossil finds are over-optimistic.

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