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Dmanisi Homo erectus Fossil Count Grows

September 20, 2002

More bones matching the skulls from the purported Eurasian Homo erectus skulls in Dmanisi, Republic of Georgia have been found (for background, see 08/31/2005 bullet 5, 03/20/2005, 08/01/2002, 11/29/2002). The find was reported in Nature1 with commentary by Daniel Lieberman in the same issue.2 The bones, including ribs, leg bones and arm bones, fingers and […]

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Rooting for Human Evolution

September 20, 2002

Can you squeeze human blood out of a turnip? A new story floating around for how humans began their long divergence away from apes in the jungle was that they developed a taste for roots. EurekAlert reported a story coming out of U of Minnesota: “About five to seven million years ago, when the lineage […]

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Computer Model Claims Lucy Walked Upright

July 20, 2002

A computer robot model of the gait of Australopithecus afarensis (aka, Lucy), reported in the BBC News, suggests that she walked upright. This is partly on the skeletal structure of the foot and the distance between the Laetoli footprints preserved in fossil ash, where are claimed to date from the same time period Lucy lived. […]

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Media Becoming Ambivalent on How to Spin Evolution

June 20, 2002

Anti-evolutionists remain the whipping boys of science, but some reporters, at least, seem to be waffling on the effectiveness of the torture. For others, the heat of the battle is apparently wearing them down. Some even seem to be entertaining treasonous thoughts that the Darwinists are unable or unwilling to provide the promised reinforcements. Chimp […]

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Stupid Evolution Quote of the Week: The Evolution of TV Dinners

April 20, 2002

Humans still have genetic memories of feasting and telling stories around the campfire, says Martin Jones at Cambridge University. That’s why we gravitate toward eating TV dinners in front of the telly. This opinion is expressed in all seriousness by United Press International, titled “Television dinners linked to evolution.” Jones calls today’s TV dinners “today’s […]

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National Geographic Embellishes Human Fossil Data

March 20, 2002

Confronting millions of homes around the world is National Geographic’s latest cover: a wide-eyed, fearful looking small human with black skin, flared ape-like nostrils, bloodshot eyes and disheveled hair – all make-believe. What was found are bones of a small human population that inhabited the island of Flores in Indonesia (see 10/27/2004 entry); the soft […]

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Monkey See, Monkey No Comprendo

January 20, 2002

In 19th century mythology, a million monkeys might type the works of Shakespeare by chance, given millions of years. But monkeys would make lousy computer programmers, because they cannot understand the “if-then” construction. Comparison studies on humans and monkeys showed that while the monkeys could be trained to recognize when one word is followed by […]

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