An exciting new paper by Fan, Tishkoff, and others on African population demographic history was published last week. The big mystery here is the 'ghosts', also called 'archaic introgressions.' There

The Bioko paradigm of human evolution seemed outlandish in 2017, and still seemed so when it was properly published in 2020. That publication was intentionally excluded from CARTA’s list of

What is the actual goal of professional paleoanthropologists? Do they want to answer our major questions about early humans? Not really. That would reduce our interest in their work and expertise, and

Have you wondered how and where Mother Africa gave birth to humans? -- Paleohuman.com

Everyone agrees that humans have many characteristics that have never been described in any other primate. Where, when, and why did the human lineage evolve each of those unique characteristics? It

For over a hundred years (before DNA technology) science desperately wanted fossils to fight creationism. But there are no fossils of orangutans or gorillas or chimpanzees or early humans in the

My Bioko-version of Elaine Morgan's Aquatic Ape Theory was first published 5 years ago today. (Many thanks to Steinar!) -- Paleohuman.com

'CARTA organizes free public symposia addressing particular aspects of human origins and uniqueness and features presentations by scientists, eminent in their respective fields.' It seems that the

CARTA will not comment on my models, but I will comment on theirs. Speciation of primates requires reproductive isolation (no gene flow) and different environmental conditions (selection

Here is a list of possible frauds. It is uncomfortable, but the hypothesis of fraud must be mentioned in order to be tested. Eugene Dubois, Dutch anatomist and fossil collector. By reading Ernst

A few kids with big rocks could "hunt and gather" the meat of a 300-kg sea turtle. Paleohumans had no need for the sharp canine-teeth that non-human primates have. Instead, they needed friendly teeth,

A lot of F-words seem to be taboo in paleoanthropology: Fabricator, Faker, Falsifier, Forger, Fraud. Scientists know about the Piltdown Man hoax from 1912-1953. But most people seem to think that such

According to MSRP, scientists are working within so-called ‘research programmes’, which are somewhat similar to Kuhnian paradigms. A research programme consists of a static ‘hard core’ of

Watch Ronald Clarke's sleight-of-hand in his CARTA lecture about the Australopithecus 'Little-Foot'. He used the legs and thigh bones of one skeleton, but ignored the arm bone (radius) of what looks

In the CARTA lecture by Berhane Asfaw, a physical model of Ardi's skull is shown, based on digital reconstruction of the fossil fragments. To me the skull looks very much like a chimpanzee, with a

In the CARTA lecture by Haile-Selassie, a model of Ardipithecus is shown with human-like traits (minute 17:02). Haile-Selassie explains: "Did we evolve from a knuckle-walker? No, she doesn't show

This CARTA poster shows pictures of three hominid skulls: Toumaï, Ardi, and Little-Foot. Watch the videos of this CARTA symposium, and read about these three hominids Sahelanthropus, Ardipithecus,

Read this excellent paper by Ruben N. Jorritsma (2022): How Well Does Evolution Explain Endogenous Retroviruses?—A Lakatosian Assessment. Here is the first part of the Introduction. 1.

I'm fascinated by paradigm shifts in science. I studied continental-drift theory for about 10 years and I've been working on aquatic-ape theory for the past 5 years. In the old paradigm of fixed

I think a paradigm shift will come to anthropogeny, the study of human origins. In the current paradigm, humans evolved from hominids. In the alternative paradigm, humans evolved from marine