The origins of human history keeps getting pushed further back in time, as a recent analysis of a wooden structure in Africa dating back almost a half a million years demonstrates. For reference, anthropologists now date the emergence of homo sapiens to about 200,000 years ago (although some argue for 300,000). The wooden structure discovered
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Creationists frequently bring up the Piltdown Man to support their idea that scientists deliberately lie about human evolution. True, the Piltdown Man was a famous fake (built by *one* “scientist”) – a supposedly missing link between humans and apes. However, it was actually the scientific community that proved the bones to be a forgery.
Catch up on how historical geneticists are unveiling fascinating new discoveries about early human history ( example- new discussion about the so-called “Hobbit” peoples from the Indonesia area). _Who We Are and How We Got Here_ is a great read!
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This reconstruction of a Homo heidelbergensis (600,000-300,000 years ago) reminds us that we H. sapiens are not the only genus of our kind to have walked the earth, and our Homo ancestors, like us, shared an interesting quality: we lack hair. Of course, we have some hair — our heads and genitals, and many of
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