Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey began one of his last lectures by saying something funny. Still, I don't think it was meant as a joke: “The problem that afflicted the acceptance of the position of humans and non-humans has continued to be a point…
The most frequently asked question about human origins is, what has changed in the human genetic makeup so that we have diverged from the animals we are descended from? Or, how could we demonstrate the way we emerged as a modern population,…
The emergence of humans is a mystery, with many unanswered questions about when and how our ancestors became like us. Despite piles of bones and stone tools, it is difficult to understand the course of events and the motives behind this evolution.…
In the theories of evolution, the implicit idea from the beginning has been to explain also human emergence. Although the known history of the evolution of the genus homo unveils the mystery of man a bit, no single factor so far can…
This article argues that the story of Adam and Eve can be interpreted as a psychological explanation for the problematic nature of humans. It suggests that the serpent represents a traitorous gene that caused humans to become mentally juvenile and that the…
One of the consequences of the homo reliquiae theory is that human evolution can no longer be considered valid. As the result of microevolution, humans are not a “species better adapted to harsh conditions”. On the contrary, they are a group of…
What makes us human? Is it consciousness? Is it our ability to reach reality? And specifically better than other species? Do we have a purpose? Are we closer to the gods because of that? Because humans represent such a radical break with…
Meanwhile, in Africa Dry and cracked land where nothing grows anymore. Africa probably looked like this after more than 200,000 years of the Saale glaciation about 130.000 years ago. Ice age caused an extended drought during its existence and drove the local…
The human species was born as stripped-down from standard features of homo heidelbergensis, not as supplemented. When ruthless nature in Africa exterminated the adult phenotype, it could not kill out the few members of the adolescent phenotype. They escaped extinction by using…
Stone tool making tells quite directly about a very old, more than two million-year-old transmitted defect that became much later the core of all humanity.
The pivotal point in interpreting the early human evolution in my hypothesis is to understand how…