Human Origins Rethink ?
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Khurram - unfortunately I don't remember my password to that email address. Haven't been able to check it for ages.
Ardi is an exciting find. And of course it calls to mind Standish's Law: The media reports will hearld the overturning of our previous understanding of human evolution approximately once each six months, using “words to the effect of ‘this means rewriting the history of human evolution." (lol)
And so much for anti-human exceptionalists with this find:
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs…"Human exceptionalism received a boost today with the news that human beings apparently did not evolve from apes...I bring this up because some Darwinsists and other assorted materialists have attacked human exceptionalism on the basis that our supposed emergence from the great apes and/or our genetic closeness means that we should not think of ourselves as distinctive. I never thought that was in the least persuasive. What matters is what we are now, not what might have been millions of years ago or how we got here..."
"Take that 98.4 per cent, an oft-repeated figure that has been used to argue that chimps deserve human rights. True, Homo sapiens and Pan troglodytes share an extraordinary amount of genetic similarity – yet humans and mice share almost as much."
So... it's looking more like "devolution" happened. The non-Darwinian saltation which took place is demonstrating more and more that our alleged ancestors were more of a human biped type of creature... hmmmm.
- saltation = creative bursts. As opposed to gradualism.teleos