Darwin, Lucy and the Quest for Human Origins

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Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley predicted that Africa would ultimately prove to be the cradle of humankind in spite of strong opposition from scholars who embraced a Eurocentric view for human origins. The 1974 discovery of Lucy heralded a new epoch in human origins and her species has become the benchmark by which all other finds are judged.

Donald Johanson, Ph.D. is the Founder and Director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University. Known world-wide for his discovery of the Lucy skeleton, Dr. Johanson is the author of seven books and the host of the three-part Nova series In Search of Human Origins.

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[siegemos]

@daggyz1959 What sort of hands and feet do you think they should have given her?

What is the alternative you're speaking of?

In the early 1900s they though the Coelacanth might have been an ancestor yes, then conflicting evidence turned up and the theory was disproved and everybody accepted that. That's how science works, we form theories and then try and disprove them. Hardly an embarrassment and hardly an example of evolutionists desperately wanting to believe something unprovable.

[wookyz1]

@BadLilNinja yes im certain you dont come from africans hahahaha (kinda goofy)

[BadLilNinja]

@wookyz1 hahahaha....you would know im sure, lol

[wookyz1]

europeas find bones (always in africa). apply a fancy latin name to them, draw a picture or model of what they asume it looked like, and call it evolution. the neanderthal (european) was extinct but the dna magically reappeared in the majority of the people on the planet most likely due to slavery and colonization. you do not come from africans evolution is bullshit. study your own bones

[TheBardicDruid]

@AscendingParadigm Do you want the list or just an answer??? The answer is yes, both with fossils and genetically.

[TheBardicDruid]

@sajidullah Sources please, I'd don't believe a thing without evidence.

[TheBardicDruid]

@daggyz1959 You make it very apparent that you've never studied paleontology or archeology, I'd even say you've never went beyond high school biology. Your lack of knowledge is glaring to say the least.

[AscendingParadigm]

Are homosapiens are direct descendants of Australopithecus?

[8698gil]

The creationist rubbish known as icons of evolution has been thoroughly debunked for the complete and utter nonsense it is. Only a deluded fundie could possibly believe that hogwash. Evolution is a fact. And its the most wonderful discovery in human history. I love evolution. There are mountains of evidence, thousands of transitional fossils, and the bible has absolutely nothing except the incoherant mumblings of a few ignorant shepherds.

[amaxamon]

@tnafguy 1. The shape of the pelvis was anatomically impossible, it was *restored*. 2. There are many more than 1 Afarensis specimen 3. The pieces of skull dictated the shape, not the paleontologists. There is a complete skull, watch the video before commenting.

[sajidullah]

My dear evolutionists..I am one too ....and I want to point out that in the 12th Century ,a persian thinker by the name of 'Rumi' had clearly explained human evolution starting from just mere chemical elements ..Darwin was not the first..just like Columbus was not the first discoverer of america.