The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith by William A. Dembski;Casey Luskin;Joseph M. Holden;

Author:William A. Dembski;Casey Luskin;Joseph M. Holden;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780736977159
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2021-08-13T00:00:00+00:00

A Big Bang Origin of Homo

After realizing that habilis could not serve as a link between Homo and Australopithecus, two paleoanthropologists lamented “this muddle leaves Homo erectus without a clear ancestor, without a past.”100 Indeed, it is difficult to find fossil hominins to serve as direct transitional forms between the ape-like australopithecines and the first human-like members of Homo. The fossil record shows abrupt changes that correspond to the appearance of our genus Homo about two million years ago.

From its first appearance, Homo erectus was very human-like, and differed markedly from prior hominins that were not human-like. Yet Homo erectus appears abruptly, without apparent evolutionary precursors. An article in Nature explains:

The origins of the widespread, polymorphic, Early Pleistocene H. erectus lineage remain elusive. The marked contrasts between any potential ancestor (Homo habilis or other) and the earliest known H. erectus might signal an abrupt evolutionary emergence some time before its first known appearance in Africa at ~1.78 Myr [million years ago]. Uncertainties surrounding the taxon’s appearance in Eurasia and southeast Asia make it impossible to establish accurately the time or place of origin for H. erectus.101

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