Just had a read. I’ve had doubts about the accepted story of human evolution for a while and I know very little. It strikes me that many experts, in many fields, are reluctant to see that accepted theories may be wrong… even though it is the nature of knowledge itself to evolve and grow. You can understand it to a certain point when reputations are on the line.
Human nature of most people again Sue – Attack what they don’t understand and resist change instead of admitting they might be in error, then moving on from there. 😱🙀
Ah well… at least we still have a lot of discoveries and new understanding to look forward to. As long as it doesn’t take as long as the missing dinosaurs…
There’s an awful lot of mythology still swirling around human evolution – most of it today driven by that silly Rudolf Zallinger picture involving marching apes, which he did as an infographic for Time-Life in 1965. I even saw a version of it on the wall of my local supermarket on the weekend (‘evolution’ of their brand logo…). The picture is quite wrong, and what’s emerging now is a very different – and much more exciting and interesting – than anybody ever imagined (back in the early 1980s when I was studying this stuff I knew my lecturers were, somehow, wrong, in their adherence to the prevailing ‘model’ – since discredited – but as a lowly undergrad I couldn’t actually say so…)
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
I posted this years ago. He’s brilliant. shows how people get carried away with research and miss the obvious.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Indeed Barb 😄😄😄
LikeLike
Thanks for sharing. I love the TED talk series.
LikeLiked by 1 person
So do I Don 👍😃
LikeLiked by 1 person
Fascinating. He is a great talker, he makes the lectures funny. thanks for posting.
LikeLiked by 1 person
My pleasure Adele 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
Wonderful!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Makes perfect sense.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I thought so too Sue and I’ve just finished reading Matthew Wrights post about how conclusions are being jumped to regarding human ancestry https://mjwrightnz.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/making-science-problems-go-away-by-changing-our-thinking/
LikeLiked by 1 person
Just had a read. I’ve had doubts about the accepted story of human evolution for a while and I know very little. It strikes me that many experts, in many fields, are reluctant to see that accepted theories may be wrong… even though it is the nature of knowledge itself to evolve and grow. You can understand it to a certain point when reputations are on the line.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Human nature of most people again Sue – Attack what they don’t understand and resist change instead of admitting they might be in error, then moving on from there. 😱🙀
LikeLiked by 1 person
Ah well… at least we still have a lot of discoveries and new understanding to look forward to. As long as it doesn’t take as long as the missing dinosaurs…
LikeLiked by 1 person
LOLOL
LikeLiked by 1 person
There’s an awful lot of mythology still swirling around human evolution – most of it today driven by that silly Rudolf Zallinger picture involving marching apes, which he did as an infographic for Time-Life in 1965. I even saw a version of it on the wall of my local supermarket on the weekend (‘evolution’ of their brand logo…). The picture is quite wrong, and what’s emerging now is a very different – and much more exciting and interesting – than anybody ever imagined (back in the early 1980s when I was studying this stuff I knew my lecturers were, somehow, wrong, in their adherence to the prevailing ‘model’ – since discredited – but as a lowly undergrad I couldn’t actually say so…)
LikeLiked by 1 person
That picture is probably behind most lay-people’s understanding of human evolution.
LikeLiked by 2 people