A provocative problem to Darwin’s conception of evolution
• indicates there's no lacking hyperlink as the human race, considering that day one, is the results of outright interbreeding between hugely various kinds
• unearths a number of “Gardens of Eden” and the way each one continent has its personal self sufficient hominid lineages
• Explains Homo sapiens’ psychological powers (the nice breakthrough) and the way we bought the “blood of the gods,” which endowed us with a soul
Did we evolve from apes, or are all of us descendants of Adam and Eve? Why is the “missing hyperlink” nonetheless lacking? Is the dumb good fortune of ordinary choice legitimate?
Piecing jointly the protohistory of humanity via anthropology, genetics, paleolinguistics, and indigenous traditions, Susan B. Martinez deals a completely unique substitute to Darwin’s evolution: smooth humanity didn't evolve yet is a mosaic of combined ancestry, the results of eons of cross-breeding and retro-breeding between diversified teams, together with Cro-Magnon, Neanderthal, hobbits, giants, and Africa’s “Lucy” and “Zinj.” Martinez exhibits that there have been a number of “Gardens of Eden” and the way every one continent had its personal mixture of races ahead of the nice Flood, which brought on the diaspora that introduced a renaissance of tradition to each department of the Earth.
Martinez explains Homo sapiens’ psychological powers (the nice step forward) in cosmological terms--how we're the made from either heaven and earth. She identifies the “Sons of Heaven” and the angel-engendered races, explaining how Homo sapiens received the “blood of the gods,” which endowed us with a soul. supplying the final word solution to the Evolution as opposed to Creationism debate, this landmark research of hybrid guy justifies his all at once unexpected visual appeal within the fossil list, the curious parallels among oral histories of the world’s humans, and why anatomically sleek beneficial properties are present in the earliest paleontological proof.
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To count number up the shared motifs with . . . the Cain/Abel story-type,” says Stephen Oppenheimer, who recorded those New Guinea myths in Eden of the East. “Kulabob and Manup have been very various males. . . . the 2 brothers in actual fact belong to varied cultures. ”*59 youngsters OF ABEL with no fairly aspiring to, scientists gave the (hybrid) Homo habilis an analogous identify, Abel—able guy; for H. habilis used to be considered the 1st toolmaker—a convenient guy. H. habilis (possessing extra Ihin genes than did Au) used to be essentially an development on Au in a couple of methods: narrower cheek enamel, greater femur, extra sleek toes, elevated mind potential, better brow. H. habilis, status as a more robust Au, was once upgraded by means of the infusion of little humans genes. And the reason is, H. habilis was once so brief (shorter than Lucy) and had a extra gracile cranium than the later Neanderthal. For the early Ihins, the little humans, opposite to their very own legislation did combine with the authochthonous Asuans (Ardi), their offspring displaying a number of combos, the main revolutionary of those offspring being H. habilis. Christened by way of Louis Leakey within the early Sixties, H. habilis’s genuine stature was once now not stumbled on till 1986. prior to then, in 1973, Louis’s son Richard, lamented: “Unfortunately, we can't determine of his physique measurement: A 650 cc mind may truly be huge for a person of super brief, mild stature”53 (yet we famous in bankruptcy 2 that little individuals are noticeable to own really higher brains). yet then the 1986 locate, OH sixty two (OH stands for Olduvai Hominid) proved simply how small H. habilis used to be: a few 3 toes tall, others taller at 3 ft 5 inches. OH sixty two, being the 1st locate of postcranial H. habilis, grew to become out to be truly smaller than tiny Au. afarensis, his femur smaller than Lucy’s, indicating extra Ihin genes. the following in H. habilis was once a creature upgraded from Au by way of AMH genes: greater mind, thinner cranium, extra human in tooth, toes, and face. yet his extra humble genes gave him an apelike torso, curved palms, lengthy hands, and brief legs: his limb bones have been really extra primitive than Au. afarensis! yet so slim. for that reason the fruitless yet everlasting debate: was once H. habilis the 1st Homo? or simply a big-brained Au? The evolutionary state of mind by no means as soon as thought of that this mishmash of fossils will be understood because the manufactured from crossbreeding—with its excellent kaleidoscope of characteristics. yet allow us to circulation on now to bankruptcy four the place we'll attempt the concept environmental pressures may cause creatures to conform into assorted species—the topic being Darwinism’s most well known notion: speciation. four “I don't believe I EVER was once A FISH”*60 Debunking Evolution now not something of the entire dwelling mergeth into one other, yet each bringeth forth after its personal type. . . . every residing factor [is] created new upon the earth and never one dwelling factor created out of one other. OAHSPE, booklet OF COSMOGONY 4:19 SPECIATION Charles Darwin’s nice brainchild used to be this: that with “favorable adaptations preserved . . . the outcome stands out as the formation of recent species,” and this can be in keeping with “the tendency in natural beings descended from an analogous inventory to diverge in personality.