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No fossil evidence for human evolution

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-06 2:56

Lucy - The skeleton of a three foot tall chimpanzee.
Heidelberg Man - Built from a jawbone that was conceded to be human.
Nebraska Man - Scientifically built up from one tooth, later found to be the tooth of an extinct pig.
Piltdown Man - The jawbone turned out to belong to a modern ape.
Peking Man - Supposedly 500,000 years old, but all supporting evidence has disappeared.
Neanderthal Man - At the 1958 International Congress of Zoology, Dr. A.J.E. Cave said his examination showed that his famous skeleton found in France over 50 years ago is that of an old man who suffered from arthritis.
Newguinea Man - Dates back to 1970, found just north of Australia.
Cromagnon Man - One of the earliest and best established fossils is at least equal in physique and brain capacity to modern man.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-06 4:36

Chick tracts are an excellent source of information, amirite? (Big Daddy?, published in 2002.)
Pity this is just a tired old troll, or I'd write up a detailed takedown.
In brief, though:

- Lucy was an Australopithecus afarensis, and she walked upright. The claim that she's a chimpanzee is a simple lie.
- The Heidelberg Man is in the genus Homo, but that does not make it human. It's well established as the progenitor of the Neanderthals, and several complete skeletons have been found, not just a jawbone.
- The Nebraska "Man" tooth belonged to an extinct species of peccary, not pig, but that was indeed a mistake. It was also quickly discovered and discredited by scientists.
- Piltdown Man was a hoax, yes, but guess who took it apart? That's right, evolutionary scientists. The forgery crumbled under peer review; the same peer review that overwhelmingly supports human evolution.
- I'm not sure where you get the idea the evidence of the Peking Man has disappeared. It hasn't. The findings from before WW2 were lost, but a lot of additional evidence has been discovered since.
- The particular skeleton Cave was talking about was an example of a Neanderthal with arthritis. Over five hundred Neanderthal skeletons have been found, including many without it. They're very obviously not modern humans.
- Only one human fossil has ever been found in New Guinea, and that was in the 1940s. It was also only about 5000 years old and an example of Homo sapiens sapiens. It's not relevant to the discussion.
- Cro-Magnon is Homo sapiens sapiens, and nobody has ever claimed otherwise. They lived quite recently.

It's interesting how about four thousand hominid fossils have been found, and this Chick tract can only find issue with a handful of them, and still manages to be wrong about all of them.

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