Autor: Purcell, Brendan M.

Buch: The Drama of Humanity

Titel: The Drama of Humanity

Stichwort: Paläontologie, Evolution, Evolutionismus

Kurzinhalt: Daten d. Paläontologie; Hominiden, Australopithecus; Homo erectus, neanderthalensis, sapiens; DNA, mtDNA, Arche-Noah-Theorie,

Textausschnitt: () ... Perhaps the greatest obstacle to an adequate interpretation of these data has been their becoming embedded within an evolutionist ideology which asserts a gradual progression from less to more complex forms of life
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1) The gap between all other hominoids and the hominids ()
2) The gap between australopithecines and Home erectus ()
3) The gap between all other hominids and Homo sapiens ()
4) The biochemical gap: the children of Eve ()
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According to Neo-Darwinian theory, humans evolved in the different regions where Homo erectus was distributed. However, research on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in humans would seem to contradict this.
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'I think one of the things that I found most personally exciting about our discovery of a single female lineage of mtDNA is that it showed how closely related all the different people on our globe are to each other, and that in fact we are really part of one human family.'
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We have proffered a collective tacit acceptance of the story of gradual adaptive change, a story that strengthened and became even more entrenched as the [neo-Darwinian] synthesis-took hold. We palaeontologists have said that the history of life supports this interpretation, all the while really knowing that it does not.
49/1 Augros and Stanciu, who have quoted Eldredge, add that 'Something is gravely wrong with a theory that forces us to deny or ignore the data of an entire science.'