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[Phys-L] Bad historical analysis?



http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/30/spooked-books-adam-gopnik


bc thinks flawed; e.g. :

"The proliferation of hominids—all those near-men and proto-men and half-apes found in the fossil record, exactly as Darwin predicted—rests on the interpretation of a few blackened Serengeti mandibles …”

“… early human fossils have been found of more than 6,000 individuals. With the rapid pace of new discoveries every year, this impressive …”

Human Fossils | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program

http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils