Paranthropus: Our Ugly Cousin?
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Peter
A cloud of dust billowed up from the unpaved South African road. An aging bespectacled man gripped the…
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Visiting Lucy in Prague
- ByPeter
Earlier this year, The National Museum of Czechia displayed the famous “transitional fossil” Lucy. The fossil was…
The Little Lady of Flores
- ByPeter
On September 2, 2003, excavators uncovered the top of a tiny skull. They were digging in a remote…
Does Lucy Prove Evolution?
Todd Wood
Last year was the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Lucy skeleton, and Paul Garner and I…
Brain Size Isn’t Everything, pt 2: Cranial Capacity Isn’t the Whole Story
In 2017, I published a graph with the cranial capacity of hominins over conventional time. I’ve seen this graph again…
Brain Size Isn’t Everything, pt 1: Bucking the Trend
There’s a famous diagram going around that purportedly demonstrates continuous human evolution from nonhuman ancestors. It apparently was…
The TRUE Story of Lucy’s Knee
- ByPeter
Is Lucy a fraud? Was her knee found miles away from the rest of her skeleton?
Fire, Engravings, Burial…All Bogus???
Let’s talk about naledi. I’m sorry my blog has become a broken record over these questions, but I have…
Homo naledi: Almost Human?
- ByPeter
Several years after discovering the bones of Homo naledi, Lee Berger authored a book entitled Almost Human. The…
Did Homo naledi Bury its Dead?
- ByPeter
In 2013, two cavers entered the Rising Star Cave System of South Africa. They crawled through the tiny…
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