Anthropogeny is the original study of human origins. During the time of Darwin, anthropogeny was the study of human origins. Then it was taken over by its sub-discipline paleoanthropology, with focus

DNA evidence shows us that the last common ancestor of gorillas and chimpanzees lived about 10 Ma ago. The two branches that diverged − gorillas (Gorilla) and chimpanzees (Pan) − look rather similar t

It has been said that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. The history of Piltdown Man was not well known in 1974 when the fossils of Lucy were discovered. Piltdown Man was a hoax; A

Minibuses with no air conditioning and with an extra heater were probably made for a cold climate, not a hot one. Using similar logic, human bodies, with no fur for sun protection, and with a sweat-co

A dream of every paleoanthropologist is to find a fossil that "can rewrite early human evolution." A lesser goal is to find a fossil that allows a paleoanthropologist to claim a new hominin species. A

When Gray told the others about the discovery, he said "We've got it. We've got The Whole Thing." It sounds like the others knew what "Whole Thing" he was talking about. It is impossible for rain to u

Bones from a single animal lie buried within a single horizontal layer of sediment. A few million years later, erosion starts to expose the layer. Gullies are carved into the soft sediment, and part o

Manuscript in preparation, May 2020. (This is an early version of the manuscript published in August 2020 in Researchgate ( https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344220554 ).)

Manuscript in preparation, with hyperlinks to cited references. August 16, 2020.

The 6-volume work (3760 pages) Mammals of Africa, by Jonathan Kingdon and others https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mammals-of-africa-9781408122570/ shows a map of all the known mammalian fossil sites (Vol

The earliest human footprints (Laetoli) occur in lake sediments that have been misinterpreted as datable volcanic ash Allan Krill, Department of Geoscience, NTNU, Trondheim, krill@... An alternative p

Bioko is in the center of the chimpanzee range, where no mammal fossils have ever been reported. It is outside the reach of mainland African viruses, such as CERV1 (PtERV1). It is always warm on Bioko

Geologists didn’t want to talk about continental-drift theory, from 1912 to 1962. They said it was speculation, and not worth discussing. (See krilldrift.com) Anthropologists haven’t wanted to talk ab

Excerpt from the intro chapter to the book Chimpanzees and Human Evolution, by Muller et al. 2017. (My bold-italics for the last 3 sentences.) The idea that modern chimpanzees might be similar to the

The world has many competing religions that involve various miracles that specialists believe in. But they don't think that the miracles of any competing religion are actually valid. Those miracles ar

Elaine Morgan's Publications Elaine Morgan 1972 The Descent of Woman Elaine Morgan 1982 The Aquatic Ape: A Theory of Human Evolution Elaine Morgan 1990 The Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us

Manuscript in preparation. Dec. 8, 2020 This is the same manuscript as August 2020 in Researchgate ( https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344220554 ) , but this version includes more details about

Including the human, there are now 13 living taxa of great apes. Except for the human, the great apes are not very mobile. We can be certain that each taxon now lives in the isolated area where it evo

Hey Chimps! Sail on over to Bioko! It's less than 50 km away — a quick trip (if you're lucky) You won't be able to leave, and your descendants won't want to leave. Relax with plenty of nutritious mari

Sail Away, by Randy Newman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCRGrnhdNQE (Now sing it with new lyrics for Bioko.) In the water you'll get food to eat. Won't have to hang in the jungle. Won't need to com