The Fossil Record Evidence Supporting Human Evolution (Classroom Series)
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Natural History Museums and school textbooks display human evolution “trees” or “march of progress” infographics that supposedly show humans evolving from ape-like creatures over millions of years. Do these human evolution trees reflect the truth about our origins? Or does the Biblical account actually have more evidence?
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- Millions of years of human evolution can fit inside of a shoebox? Well, yes, but I need to clarify.
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- You said the Lucy fossil was the best example of human evolution from around 4 million years ago. But what about the other million years, say 2 or 3 million years?
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- Well, the fossil record is actually quite sparse during that period. National Geographic says fossils attributed to Homo in the period 2 to 3 million years ago are exceedingly rare.
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- And the director of the Institute of Human Origins at ASU even said you could put all the bones in a shoebox and still fit a good pair of shoes.
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- It makes me wonder how many bones altogether supposedly show humans evolved. According to Dr. Tattersall, the curator of anthropology department at the
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- American Museum of Natural History, he says this, you could fit all of them into the back of a pickup truck if you didn't mind how much you jumbled everything up.