Günter Bechly on the Latest Fossil Find Confusing the Human “Evolutionary Tree”

Episode 1216 May 01, 2019 00:22:44
Günter Bechly on the Latest Fossil Find Confusing the Human “Evolutionary Tree”
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Günter Bechly on the Latest Fossil Find Confusing the Human “Evolutionary Tree”

May 01 2019 | 00:22:44

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid interviews paleontologist Günter Bechly about the latest hominin fossil that’s once again “rewriting human evolutionary history.” News of the find reached the media early this month. Dubbed homo luzonensis due to discovery on the Philippine island of Luzon, it poses yet another challenge to neo-Darwinian theory. A fossil like this one should have been found in Africa, not the Philippines. It should have been a lot older than it is, and it confuses the human evolutionary tree even more than before. “Darwinian theory predicts there should be one true tree of life that should converge,” says Bechly, “but the fossil record respectfully disagrees, again and again.”

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