Science and Religion: A View from an Evolutionary Creationist

This is a blog detailing the creation/evolution/ID controversy and assorted palaeontological news. I will post news here with running commentary.

Showing posts with label last common ancestor. Show all posts

Showing posts with label last common ancestor. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

New 13 Million-Year-Old Miocene Ape Discovery in Kenya

National Geographic (and other outlets) is reporting on a new skull discovered in northern Kenya, near Lake Turkana that is 13 million years...

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Was the LCA in Europe????

Was the last common ancestor of apes and humans in Europe? That seems to be the gist of a study published in the PLoS One. Nicole Mortilla...

Monday, July 14, 2014

BioLogos, Ken Ham and David Menton—A Response, Part II

Point 3: Because of the rarity of fossil hominids, even many of those who specialize in the evolution of man have never actually seen an...

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Orrorin tugenensis: As Close to the Last Common Ancestor As We Have Gotten?

Based on work by SUNY Stoney Brook, it has been learned that the femur of Orrorin tugenensis , the six-million year-old presumed hominin, al...

Monday, July 23, 2012

For the Want of a Chromosome Pair

Slate has an article on how we ended up with 46 chromosomes. Despite the colloquial writing style, there is some good information about ho...

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Gorilla DNA Sequenced

According to a story out of the LA Times, the gorilla genome has been completely sequenced. Eryn Brown writes: By comparing the new gorilla...

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Jimpithecus: I am a Christian, librarian, palaeoanthropologist, and evolutionary biologist with an all-consuming interest in apologetics and controversies in science and religion.

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