“Early Man”

1. “Early Man” Gerald Lenner, Ph.D. November 17, 2010

2. 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

3. Three Strikes and You’re Out ! How did we get irreducible complexity ? ape-men Cambrian Explosion The Theory of Evolution 4.5 Billion 3.5 Bya 2.0 Bya 1.0 0.6 present Earth “Organic Soup” Photosynthetic Animals Man Formed Plants 4 Mya How did life begin ? How did life evolve ? 3

4. Theoretical Evolution of Man You are here 4

5. Cambrian Explosion Example Trilobites 5

6. Gap Example:Fish to Amphibian Amphibian Fish 6

7. Terrestrial Vertebrates Time Creation Evolution Morphology Morphology 7

8. The Short Story A Tale of Buckets – Apes and Men 8

9. Apes & Man Both apes and man have distinctive anatomy 9

10. The Short Story HUMANS APES 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 Homo neanderthalensis Skull La Chapelle -aux-Saints Australopithecus afarensis Homo neanderthalensis Skull La Ferrassie 1 10 Models from Bone Clones Inc., Canoga park, CA

11. False Ancestors of Man 11

12. 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. BOGUS ANCESTOR 12

13. 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 ! BOGUS ANCESTOR 13

14. Ramapithecus Discovered 1932 in India, Consisted of teeth and jaw fragments, Now accepted as an extinct orangutan BOGUS ANCESTOR 14

15. Candidate Ape Men: Neanderthals Australopithecines Homo erectus 15

16. Neanderthals 16

17. Neanderthals First discovered in1856. Evidence of tool use, ritualistic burial of their dead, and jewelry. Now regarded as human. 17

18. Neanderthals Tools Jewelry 18

19. Australopithecines 19

20. Australopithecines 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 Australopithecus afarensis Skull "Lucy" 20 Models from Bone Clones Inc., Canoga park, CA

21. A Famous Australopithecine Australopithecus afarensis - “Lucy” as in “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” 21

22. 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 ! 22

23. Homo erectus 23

24. 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. 24

25. Homo erectus Homo erectus Modern man Similar to modern humans below the neck 25

26. 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. 26

27. Homo erectus Java man Homo erectus Skull Sangiran 17 BH-018 Homo erectus Skull - Tattersall / Sawyer Recreation 27

28. Homo erectus tools When “Hand Axe” is thrown like a discuss it lands knife edge side 93% of the time 28

29. Cranial Sizes Homo erectus and Neanderthals may be the same Homo erectus Neanderthals 29

30. Putting It All Together 30

31. 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; Marvin Lubenow estimates the current total to be 7000 in (2004); 31

32. 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: Minimum 8 hours of research At 5 evolutionist sources / no creationist material Find the date 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 ! 32

33. Human Family Tree ? Homo sapiens Homo erectus No clear ancestor path Australopithecines 33

34. Evolutionary Show-Stopper(In detail) Homo sapiens Homo erectus Australo- pithecines Humans, Homo erectus, and Australopithecines lived at the same time ! 34

35. Evolutionary Show-Stopper (Simplified) Homo sapiens Neander. Homo erectus Australo- pithecines Humans, Neanderthals, Homo erectus, Homo Habilis, and Australopithecines lived at the same time ! 35

36. Secular Anthropology Intelligent and capable Secular Pattern Evolution Cave man 36

37. Biblical Anthropology Intelligent and capable creation 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 Biblical Pattern Turn away from God Turn “stupid” 37

38. Summary 38

39. The Missing Link ? HUMANS APES 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 Homo neanderthalensis Skull La Chapelle -aux-Saints Australopithecus afarensis Homo neanderthalensis Skull La Ferrassie 1 39 Models from Bone Clones Inc., Canoga park, CA