Recommended Resources

Bones of Contention (Revised and Updated)

by Marvin Lubenow

Artistic Ape Anecdotes: The Art of Deception? DVD

presented by Dr Don Batten

Apemen: ‘Missing Links’ & The Bible DVD

presented by Philip Bell

The Evolution of Human Evolution DVD

presented by Dr Emil Silvestru

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Anthropology and Apemen Questions and Answers

Key articles

• Argument: Evolution of Mankind (from Refuting Evolution 2)
• What about similarities and other such arguments for evolution? (From the Creation Answers Book)
• Are there ape-men in your ancestry?
• Fossil evidence for alleged apemen: Part 1: the genus Homo, and Part 2: non-Homo hominids
• Adam, Eve and Noah vs Modern Genetics

What does the human fossil record show?

• Bones Overthrown
• The Human Fossils Still Speak
• ‘Out of Africa’ theory going out of style?
• Pre-Adamites, sin, death and the human fossils
  

Are scientists unbiased when they reconstruct ‘apeman’ fossils?

• Filling in the blanks
• National Geographic unveils ‘Wilma’ the Neandertal lady
• ‘Ape-woman’ statue misleads the public

How intelligent were Neandertals and Homo erectus?

• Armoured Neandertal
• Neandertals were fully human in thinking: Symbolic items show human cognition and symbolic thinking
• Neandertals ‘must have had advanced skills’
• Speech, music—and Neandertals
• The Painted Neandertal: Ancient cosmetics are upsetting evolutionary stories
• Homo erectus misunderstandings?
• Skull wars: new ‘Homo erectus’ skull in Ethiopia
• Axing evolutionary ideas—stone dead!
• How different is the cranial-vault thickness of Homo erectus from modern man?

What do fossil and genetic evidence suggest about Neandertals?

• The caring Neandertal
• Do genetic differences disprove that Neandertals and modern humans interbred?
• Lagar Velho 1 child skeleton: a Neandertal/modern human hybrid (PDF)
• Neandertal Man—the changing picture
• Recovery of Neandertal mtDNA: An Evaluation
• Thumbs up for Neandertals
• The FOXP2 gene supports Neandertals being fully human
• Neandertal genome like ours (There may be Neandertals at your next family reunion!)
• The Neandertal mitochondrial genome does not support evolution
  

What about other so-called evolutionary missing links?

• The non-transitions in ‘human evolution‘—on evolutionists’ terms
• Australopithecus sediba revisited
• Homo habilis hacked from the family tree
• Ardipithecus again: A recycled ape-man
• Did Lucy walk upright?
• ‘Giants’ in the land: an assessment of Gigantopithecus and Meganthropus
• Hobbit bone wars
• Soggy dwarf bones
• Hobbling the Hobbit?
• Hofmeyr man—another African ‘missing link’?
• The ‘Lucy Child’
• Micro-primates … a transitional form or just heelbone hype?
• Toumai ‘ape-man’ suffers another blow
• New footprints from Ileret, Kenya, supposed to be from human evolutionary ancestor
• New Hominin skull from Kenya
• No more love for Lucy?
• Not another ‘ape-man’!
• The Rise and Fall of Skull KNM-ER 1470
• Time’s alleged ‘ape-man‘ trips up (again) [Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba]!
• Who was ‘Java man’?
• Australopithecus sediba no human ancestor
• Gautengensis vs sediba: A battle for supremacy amongst ‘apeman’ contenders, but neither descended from Adam
• He ain’t my brother: no apparent family ties between Big Man and Lucy
• Not the Flintstones it’s the Denisovans

How are humans unique?

• Monkeying around with the origins of language
• A ‘Bill of Rights’ for apes?
• Has an ape learned to talk? (available in Spanish)
• Bird-brain matches chimp
• Deaf babies show we are ‘created to speak’
• Differences between animals and humans
• Furry little humans?
• Made in the Image of God
• Man: The Image of God
• Recycled humans
• Walking monkey business in Israel
• Curved spines and pregnant primates
• Going ape about human rights: Are monkeys people, too?

What is the ‘mitochondrial Eve’ hypothesis? Does it suggest that all humans can be traced back to one woman?

• No bones about Eve
• A shrinking date for Eve (available in Spanish)
• Y-chromosome Adam?
• Genesis correctly predicts Y-chromosome pattern (and a brief history of the Jews)
• The Neutral Model of evolution and recent African origins

Related Q&A pages

Origin of Life
Genetics
Human Life
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