Günter Bechly: Human Evolution’s Once ‘Indisputable Facts’ Now “Dead Theory”

Episode 1204 March 20, 2019 00:17:33
Günter Bechly: Human Evolution’s Once ‘Indisputable Facts’ Now “Dead Theory”
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Günter Bechly: Human Evolution’s Once ‘Indisputable Facts’ Now “Dead Theory”

Mar 20 2019 | 00:17:33

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid interviews paleoentomologist Günter Bechly about human evolution, and how the story keeps getting rewritten. The “out of Africa” story was once “indisputable,” but recent evidence has overturned it; it’s now “dead.” The human phylogenetic tree is riddled with question marks. An original human pair is no longer out of the question. So much weakly founded evidence has been oversold in the past, says Bechly, it’s still wise to apply a healthy dose of skepticism toward today’s “indisputable facts” of human evolution. Please consider donating to support the IDTF Podcast.

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