Evolution What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters

15 The Ape’s Reflection? The Only Transition That Really Matters We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with ...

356 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! Yet the idea is still offensive to many in the United States, where many polls show that a m ...

The Ape’s Reflection? 357 FIGURE 15.2. The hominid fossil record is now becoming very complete, contrary to creationist falsehoo ...

358 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! “Nebraska Man” was not accepted by any other paleontologist except Osborn and was quickly co ...

The Ape’s Reflection? 359 This brief summary of how they managed to get every single example in their attack on hominin fossils ...

360 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! case that humans had evolved and did so in Africa. Nevertheless, the hominin fossil record ( ...

FIGURE 15.3. The current family tree of hominids, showing the extremely bushy branching pattern of human evolution, with many di ...

362 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! Galago Tarsier Orangutan Gorilla Chimpanzee Human Primates Lemur New World MonkeyGibbon Old ...

The Ape’s Reflection? 363 In the Miocene, apes were more diverse and successful than the monkeys and occa- sionally were found i ...

(D) (B) (C) (A) FIGURE 15.5. Some of the better known fossil hominid skulls from Africa. (A) The oldest known hominid, Sahelanth ...

(A) (B) FIGURE 15.6. Two of the oldest known relatively complete hominid skeletons. (A) The skeleton known as “Lucy,” the nearly ...

366 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! By the late Pliocene, hominins had become very diverse in Africa (fig. 15.3). These included ...

The Ape’s Reflection? 367 made Richard Leakey’s reputation, and the very advanced but short-lived Homo ergaster (fig. 15.6B), fr ...

368 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! erectus” or “Java Man”) have been dated at that age (Swisher et al. 2000), and specimens are ...

The Ape’s Reflection? 369 Finally, we see the first fossil skulls and skeletons that look almost indistinguishable from our own ...

370 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! The Third Chimpanzee The next time you visit a zoo, make a point of walking by the ape cages ...

The Ape’s Reflection? 371 species of chimpanzee, genetically closer than just about any other three species of animals on the pl ...

372 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! (A) (B) FIGURE 15.10. (A) Juvenile chimpanzees have many characteristics of the skull found ...

The Ape’s Reflection? 373 research on extending his life. Dr. Obispo discovers that the third earl of Gonister in Eng- land had ...

374 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! meaningless, and their basis is only a tiny part of our genome. In fact, evidence shows that ...