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“Early Man”
Gerald Lenner, Ph.D.
November 17, 2010
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Talk Outline
• Review
• The Short Story - A Tale of Two Buckets
• False Ancestors of Man
• Candidate Ancestors
- Neanderthals
- Australopithecines
- Homo erectus
• No Ancestral Tree for Humans
• Biblical / Secular Anthropology
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Three Strikes and You’re Out !
The Theory of Evolution
4.5 Billion
3.5 Bya
2.0 Bya
Earth
Formed
“Organic Soup”
Photosynthetic
Plants
Cambrian
Explosion
1.0 0.6
present
Animals
Man
4
Mya
How did
life begin ?
How did life
evolve ?
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Theoretical Evolution of Man
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Cambrian Explosion Example
Trilobites
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Gap Example:
Fish to Amphibian
Amphibian
Fish
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Terrestrial Vertebrates
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Creation
Evolution
Time
Morphology
Morphology
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The Short Story
A Tale of Buckets – Apes and Men
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Apes & Man
Both apes and
man have
distinctive
anatomy
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The Short Story
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APES
HUMANS
Homo habilis Skull KNM-ER 1813
Australopithecus
africanus Skull Sts 5
"Mrs. Ples”
Cro-Magnon Skull
Australopithecus
robustus Skull SK-48
Australopithecus boisei
Skull KNM-ER 406
Australopithecus afarensis
Models from Bone Clones Inc., Canoga park, CA
Homo neanderthalensis Skull La
Chapelle -aux-Saints
Homo neanderthalensis Skull La Ferrassie 1
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False Ancestors of Man
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Eoanthropus dawsoni (Piltdown man)
Discovered 1910-12 in Sussex England. Consisted of
an orangutan jaw with filed teeth and a human skull cap.
It was an intentional hoax and accepted until 1953.
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Nebraska man
(Hesperopithecus haroldcookii)
Based on a single tooth found in 1922 by
Harold Cook in western Nebraska. Later it
turned out to be from an extinct pig !
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Ramapithecus
Discovered 1932 in India, Consisted of teeth and jaw
fragments, Now accepted as an extinct orangutan
BOGUS ANCESTOR
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Candidate Ape Men:
Neanderthals
Australopithecines
Homo erectus
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Neanderthals
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Neanderthals
First discovered in1856.
Evidence of tool use, ritualistic
burial of their dead, and jewelry.
Now regarded as human.
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Neanderthals
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Tools
Jewelry
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Australopithecines
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Australopithecines
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EXTINCT
APES
Australopithecus africanus
Skull Sts 5 "Mrs. Ples”
Australopithecus
robustus Skull SK-48
Australopithecus
aethiopicus Skull
KNM-WT 17000
Australopithecus boisei
Skull KNM-ER 406
Models from Bone Clones Inc., Canoga park, CA
Australopithecus afarensis
Skull "Lucy"
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A Famous Australopithecine
Australopithecus afarensis - “Lucy”
as in “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”
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Laetoli Footprints
Discovered in 1976
by Mary Leakey,
dated to be 3.5
million years old –
the time of the
australopithecines
but are fully human
in appearance !
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Homo erectus
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Homo erectus
280 individual fossils
• morphologically similar to humans
• 40 out 83 sites have stone tools, 8 controlled fire
• 1 burial, 1 cremation, human carving, shelters, etc.
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Homo erectus
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Homo
erectus
Modern
man
Similar to
modern humans
below the neck
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Homo erectus - Java man
(Pithecanthropus erectus)
Found by laborers for Eugene Dubois in 1891 near Trinil,
Java. Based on a skull cap and femur found 50 ft. away.
At the time of the discovery, he also found two human
skulls nearby that he did not reveal.
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Homo erectus
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Homo erectus
Skull Sangiran
17 BH-018
Java man
Homo erectus
Skull - Tattersall
/ Sawyer
Recreation
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Homo erectus tools
When “Hand
Axe” is thrown
like a discuss it
lands knife edge
side 93% of the
time
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Cranial Sizes
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Homo erectus and Neanderthals may be the same
Homo
erectus
Neanderthals
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Putting It All Together
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Pre-men Fossil Catalogs ?
The question is why is there not more work done in
pre-men Systematics ? The last catalog of fossil
was made in 1976. At that time the following
fossilized individuals were found – roughly 4000;
Africa
Europe and USSR
Americas, Asia,
Australia
1,390
1,516
1,092
(1976)
(1969,1970)
(1974)
Marvin Lubenow estimates the current total to be
7000 in (2004);
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A Class Exercise
Can the lineage of man be found in the
scientific literature?
Each of the 30 college students were given 5 “pre-men” fossils
Rules:
1) Minimum 8 hours of research
2) At 5 evolutionist sources / no creationist material
3) Find the date
4) Find the category (Homo sapiens, Homo erectus,
Homo habilis, Neanderthal, australopithecine)
When the students put the evolutionists’ results together the
theory of evolution was falsified !
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Homo
sapiens
Human Family Tree ?
Homo
erectus
No clear
ancestor path
Australopithecines
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Homo
sapiens
Homo
erectus
Australopithecines
Evolutionary
Show-Stopper
(In detail)
Humans,
Homo erectus, and
Australopithecines
lived at the same
time !
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Homo
sapiens
Neander.
Homo
erectus
Australopithecines
Evolutionary
Show-Stopper
(Simplified)
Humans,
Neanderthals,
Homo erectus,
Homo Habilis, and
Australopithecines
lived at the same
time !
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Secular Anthropology
Intelligent and
capable
Cave man
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Intelligent
and
capable
creation
Biblical Anthropology
Gen 4:17 Cain builds city named after son Enoch
Gen 4:19 Jabel invents harp & flute
Gen 4:22 Tubal-cain foundry with bronze and iron
Turn “stupid”
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Summary
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The Missing Link ?
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APES
HUMANS
Homo habilis Skull KNM-ER 1813
Australopithecus
africanus Skull Sts 5
"Mrs. Ples”
Cro-Magnon Skull
Australopithecus
robustus Skull SK-48
Australopithecus boisei
Skull KNM-ER 406
Australopithecus afarensis
Models from Bone Clones Inc., Canoga park, CA
Homo neanderthalensis Skull La
Chapelle -aux-Saints
Homo neanderthalensis Skull La Ferrassie 1
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