A. anamensis – Uncommon Descent

Gunter Bechly: Farewell, says the apeman

Why wave goodbye? Because if this skull is a guide, the transition from not-really-Lucy to a-bit-like-Lucy to almost-Lucy to Hi, Lucy!! never really happened.

Darwinism Human evolution Intelligent Design

Rare hominin skull upsets tidy human origins theory

If this new hominin was a contemporary as well as an ancestor of Lucy, another “textbook example” of straightforward Darwinism is scrubbed.

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