From the BBC, a slide show of observed or hypothesized changes, “The Simple Steps That Made Us Human,” none of which is in the least bit simple.
The slide show ends with: “Because big questions need answering.” Yes, but one could be a bit more particular about the depth of the answers. These answers seem addressed to people who have no serious questions.
Someone should study the cultural reasons that there is a market for this sort of stuff and why—like unsupported nutrition claims—it gets branded as “science.”
Note: If a religious group did this, I would put them on cult watch. Yet it’s Brit government-funded. – O’Leary for News
See also: Human origins: The war of trivial explanations
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Did the brain changes happen by accident or by design?
The thing is, if you don’t have a thorough understanding of the neurological programming differences between species A and species B, you can’t begin to answer that question.
But you’ll never get that sort of admission from the BBC propaganda machine.
Yawn.
The value of taxpayer supported public broadcasting is quite unclear in the age of the internet. There are many places one can go, for free, to get some sense of the true dimensions of issues.
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As to the implausibility of changing one creature of trillions of cells into another creature of trillions of cells, here are a few notes:
And, just as King and Wilson predicted, the regulatory regions between chimps and humans are found to be very different. In fact the regulatory regions are found to be ‘species specific’:
As to Wilson and King’s observation that ‘nearly every bone in the body of a chimpanzee is readily distinguishable in shape or size from its human counterpart’, that fact poses its own insurmountable difficulty for Darwinian explanations.
Of related note to ‘coordinated changes’:
a few more notes:
U Brit u pay
PS: Canada’s CBC might be worse. It’s hard to track headlong descents that are FTL