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Human Origins Research Is a Huge Scientific Mess
https://evolutionnews.org/2021/05/scientists-conclude-human-origins-research-is-a-big-mess/
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“[T]he hypothesis that modern humans, Neanderthals, Denisovans, Homo erectus, and the other hominid species are descended from a common ancestor is no longer scientifically viable.”
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Ancient DNA Indicates Modern Humans Are One-of-a-Kind
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New Genetic Evidence Affirms Human Uniqueness
https://reasons.org/explore/blogs/the-cells-design/new-genetic-evidence-affirms-human-uniqueness
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“Digging into the technical [peer-reviewed, paleontologic, paleoanthropologic, and paleogenetic] literature… we find a [scientific] situation that’s starkly different from [that which most] evolutionary scientists who engage in public debates [claim]… A closer look at the literature shows that… the fragmented hominin fossil record does not document the evolution of humans from ape-like precursors. In fact, scientists are quite sharply divided over who or what our human ancestors even were… Despite the constant drumbeat of media stories announcing the discovery of the latest ‘missing link,’ the evidence shows that human-like forms appear abruptly in the fossil record, without any fossils connecting us to our alleged ape-like evolutionary ancestors.”
https://salvomag.com/article/salvo26/has-science-shown-that-we-evolved-from-ape-like-creatures
[Yes, the requisite scientific references supporting those claims are provided in the article, as is the case with all the articles shared on this, and every, page of ASND.]
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No consensus among experts on when the human race arose
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Evolutionary Paleontologist Günter Bechly: “No Well-Established Tree of Fossil Humans”
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Who are you? How the story of human origins is being rewritten.
Again. And Again. And again. And…
https://evolutionnews.org/2018/11/rewriting-of-human-origins-ongoing-in-east-asia/
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The Unreliability of Hominid Phylogenetic Analysis Challenges The Human Evolutionary Paradigm
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New Discovery Hands Human Evolution a Challenge
http://www.reasons.org/articles/new-discovery-hands-human-evolution-a-challenge
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There Is a Huge Chasm Between Humans & Nonhuman Animals
https://salvomag.com/article/salvo36/our-quantum-leap
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“… the fossil evidence doesn’t show the gradual emergence of skull globularity. Instead, modern human specimens form a distinct cluster isolated from the distinct clusters formed by H. erectus, Neanderthals, and archaic H. sapiens. There are no intermediate globular specimens between archaic and modern humans, as would be expected if this trait evolved. Alternatively, the distinct clusters are exactly as expected if modern humans were created.”
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“… the skull shape of modern humans… [has] bulging and enlarged parietal and cerebral areas… Anthropologists believe that the difference in skull shape (and hence, brain shape) has profound significance and helps explain the advanced cognitive abilities of modern humans. The parietal lobe of the brain is responsible for:
Perception of stimuli
Sensorimotor transformation (which plays a role in planning)
Visuospatial integration (which provides hand-eye coordination needed for throwing spears and making art)
Imagery
Self-awareness
Working and long-term memory
Human beings seem to uniquely possess these capabilities. They make us exceptional compared to other hominins.”
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Out of Africa?
https://twitter.com/RTB_FRana/status/1019562736835936256
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“Now the cradle of mankind has not only moved from East Africa to Southern Europe but even to Germany, and the age is about three times (!) the age of Lucy, indeed 3-4 million years older than the oldest known putative hominins from Africa (Sahelanthropus and Orrorin)… To be clear… this is not just another find that merely tweaks our understanding of human origins. It represents nothing less than the final nail in the coffin of the still ruling ‘Out of Africa’ paradigm. This year we could witness the collapse of the scientific consensus in paleoanthropology.”
https://evolutionnews.org/2017/10/human-origins-out-of-africa-or-out-of-germany/
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Were humans in North America 130,000 years ago?
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DNA Sequences: More Is Not Better
http://www.reasons.org/articles/dna-sequences-more-is-not-better-3
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Is 75% of the Human Genome Junk DNA? No, because ENCODE.
http://www.reasons.org/blogs/the-cells-design/is-75-of-the-human-genome-junk-dna
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Human innovation abruptly surged roughly 40,000 years ago.
http://www.evidenceunseen.com/articles/science-and-scripture/evolution-and-creation/adam-and-eve/
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One-of-a-Kind: Three Discoveries Affirm Human Uniqueness
http://www.reasons.org/articles/one-of-a-kind-three-discoveries-affirm-human-uniqueness
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The Fundamental Difference Between Humans and Nonhuman Animals
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2015/11/the_fundamental_2100661.html
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“… the lateral frontal pole [is] unique to humans…”
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/369847/print
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Are Humans Still Evolving? That depends on your definitionS of “evolving”.
http://www.reasons.org/blogs/the-cells-design/science-news-flash–are-humans-still-evolving
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Does the Evidence Point to Mankind’s Fully Natural Origin?
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2014/04/does_the_eviden_1084261.html
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“[All of t]his implies that the well-established scenarios of human evolution must be false…”
https://evolutionnews.org/2017/09/fossil-footprints-from-crete-deepen-controversy-on-human-origins/
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The 2020 Human Origins Workshop
Speakers: Dr. Joshua Swamidass and Dr. Fazale Rana
Host: Dr. Anjeanette Roberts
Panelists: Dr. Ken Keathley, Dr. Andrew Loke, Dr. Jeff Schloss, Dr. William Lane Craig, Dr. Steve Schaffner, and Dr. Nathan Lents
https://www.reasons.org/HumanOriginsWorkshop2020
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Homo “Antecessors”:
Another Human Ancestor Falsified
Study Puts Australopithecus sediba Back in the Ground
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“… the boundaries of both the species (Homo sapiens) and the genus (Homo) remain as fuzzy as ever…”
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/931
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“If H. naledi is just 300,000 years old, some researchers might argue that it can’t belong to the base of our family tree. It’s too young. ”
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Will the Real Human Ancestor Please Stand Up?
http://www.reasons.org/articles/will-the-real-human-ancestor-please-stand-up
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Has Science Shown That We Evolved from Ape-like Creatures?
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Neanderthal-to-Human Link Severed
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Paleoanthropologists Fail to Find Common Ancestor to Modern Humans and Neanderthals
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“[Numerous published, peer-reviewed] studies indicate that human beings alone possess a suite of characteristics that distinguish us from all other hominins… Other studies have identified key differences between the brains of modern humans and Neanderthals… Now [2020], two recent studies add to the case for human exceptionalism. They involve genetic comparisons of modern humans with both Neanderthals and Denisovans… While the DNA sequences of protein-coding genes in modern human genomes and the genomes of these two extant hominins is quite similar, both studies demonstrate that the gene expression is dramatically different. That difference accounts for anatomical differences between humans and these two hominins and suggests that significant cognitive differences exist as well… For a variety of reasons, some Christian apologists and Intelligent Design proponents classify Neanderthals and modern humans into a single group, arguing that the two are equivalent. But these two studies comparing gene regulation profiles make it difficult to maintain that perspective… [Most importantly, t]he differences in the expression profiles for genes that control the development and structure of the larynx in modern humans and Neanderthals suggests that Neanderthals lacked the capacity for speech. This result dovetails nicely with the differences in modern human and Neanderthal brain structure, which suggest that Neanderthals also lacked the neural capacity for language and speech. And, of course, it is significant that there is no conclusive evidence for Neanderthal symbolism in the archeological record.”
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Did Humans and Neanderthals Interbreed?
Probably, but that doesn’t prove — or even suggest — that humans descended from Neanderthals.
Are Humans and Neanderthals the Same Species?
No. Not even close. The genetic data are unequivocal.
Did Modern Human-Neanderthal Hybrids Have a Soul?
Possibly, but there is currently no way to know for sure.
https://reasons.org/explore/blogs/the-cells-design/read/the-cells-design/2020/08/05/answering-scientific-questions-on-neanderthal-human-interbreeding-part-1
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https://reasons.org/explore/blogs/the-cells-design/read/the-cells-design/2020/08/12/answering-scientific-questions-on-neanderthal-human-interbreeding-part-2
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Were Neanderthals People, Too? A Response to Jon Mooallem
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“Neanderthals used fire during warm climate conditions and failed to use fire during cold periods — the opposite of what would be predicted if Neanderthals had mastered fire… Taken in its entirety, the data seems to indicate that Neanderthals lacked mastery of fire but could use it opportunistically.”
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“[I]f Neanderthals possessed symbolic capabilities, it would undermine human exceptionalism… rendering human beings nothing more than another hominin. But when the full body of scientific evidence about Neanderthal biology and behavior is carefully weighed, it becomes clear that human beings uniquely stand apart from all creatures. We are exceptional.”
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Piltdown Man: The Fact and Fantasy of the Hominid Fossil Record
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There are many reasons to doubt the evolutionary transition of humans from australopithecines
http://www.evidenceunseen.com/articles/science-and-scripture/evolution-and-creation/human-evolution/
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The Mystery of Human Origins Remains: More Doubts About Australopithecus sediba
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2013/07/the_mystery_of_074951.html
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“If Homo heidelbergensis disappears, it will leave evolutionary scenarios in a state of chaos.”
http://www.reasons.org/articles/the-amazing-disappearing-hominid
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1.8-million-year-old skull shakes mankind’s family tree
https://www.foxnews.com/science/1-8-million-year-old-skull-shakes-mankinds-family-tree
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What About Apes?
“If human beings evolved from ape-like creatures, what were the transitional species between ape-like hominins and the truly human-like members of the genus Homo found in the fossil record?“
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/08/a_big_bang_theo063141.html
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Is There Enough Time For Humans to have Evolved from Apes? Ann Gauger, Ph.D. (Developmental Biology) Answers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN7NwKYUXOs&feature=g-high-u
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The Mismeasure of Man: Why Popular Ideas about Human-Chimp Comparisons Are Misleading or Wrong
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2014/03/the_mismeasure083011.html
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Fake Science: “About 99 Percent of Our DNA Is Identical to That of Chimpanzees“
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2017/01/fake_science_ab103399.html
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Isn’t the “99%” genetic similarity between humans and chimps evidence for evolution?
Hardly. The similarities of genetic materials (genes) used to construct both humans and chimpanzees reveal similarities only in the designer. The creatures themselves are enormously different beyond their genes.
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Chimps Use Tools to Fish for Algae
http://www.reasons.org/blogs/the-cells-design/science-news-flash–chimps-use-tools-to-fish-for-algae
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Now Chimps Practice “Sacred Rituals”?
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2016/03/now_chimps_prac102652.html
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Stone Tool Use by Capuchin Monkeys Challenges Human Evolution
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“… there are also credible Ph.D. scientists, such as Michael Behe, Douglas Axe, and Ann Gauger, who doubt neo-Darwinism and have published peer-reviewed scientific papers critiquing the orthodox evolutionary view in journals like Quarterly Review of Biology, Protein Science, Journal of Molecular Biology, and BIO-Complexity.”
http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=25-05-044-b
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Language:
How Did Human Language Evolve? Scientists Still Don’t Know.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2018/12/07/where-does-language-come-from/
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Darwin’s Problem: The Origin of Language
http://www.reasons.org/articles/darwins-problem-the-origin-of-language
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Leading Evolutionary Scientists Admit We Have No Evolutionary Explanation of Human Language
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2014/12/leading_evoluti092141.html
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Why Does Written Language Appear So Late after Human Origins?
http://www.reasons.org/articles/why-does-written-language-appear-so-late-after-human-origins
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Adam & Eve?
Published, peer-reviewed genetic research:
All humans are descended from just TWO people who lived 100k-200k years ago
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“[A] single-couple origin of humanity… is consistent with [the best and most recent paleogenetic research] data. With only minor modifications of our parsimonious model assumptions, we suggest that a single-couple origin 100 [thousand years ago], or more recently, is possible.”
https://bio-complexity.org/ojs/index.php/main/article/view/BIO-C.2019.1/BIO-C.2019.1
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When did humanity originate?
Can we be precise?
https://reasons.org/explore/blogs/todays-new-reason-to-believe/errors-in-human-origins-dates
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Age Confirmed for “Eve,” Mother of All Humans
http://www.reasons.org/podcasts/science-news-flash/age-confirmed-for-eve-mother-of-all-humans
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The claim that humans *had* to have originated from a population of thousands rather than a protogenic pair of two is simply, scientifically, false
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Former BioLogos Fellow Backs Down
Dennis Venema Finally Concedes That Genomic Science Does NOT Preclude A Literal Adam and Eve
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Evolutionary Biologist Pushes Back on Claim that Humans Did Not Descend from a Single Human Pair
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Adam and Eve: A Primordial Pair or a Population?
http://www.reasons.org/blogs/the-cells-design/adam-and-eve-a-primordial-pair-or-a-population
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Were They Real? The Scientific Case for Adam and Eve
http://www.reasons.org/articles/were-they-real-the-scientific-case-for-adam-and-eve
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Jerry Coyne:
Jerry Coyne’s Chapter on the Fossil Record Fails to Show “Why Evolution Is True”
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/12/jerry_coynes_c067021.html
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From Jerry Coyne, “Evolution-of-the-Gaps” and Other Fallacies
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/12/from_jerry_coyn_15067091.html
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Blink and You’ll Miss It: Jerry Coyne Turns His Attention to the “Engine of Evolution”
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/12/blink_and_youll2067161.html
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As Evidence of Darwinian Evolution, Biogeography Falls Well Short of Satisfying
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/12/as_evidence_of5067151.html
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The Persistent Enigma of Sexual Reproduction
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/12/the_persistent2067171.html
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Human Origins, and the Real Reasons for Evolutionary Skepticism
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/12/human_origins_a1067181.html
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