{"id":42315,"date":"2017-05-24T10:27:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=42315"},"modified":"2017-05-24T10:27:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:27:47","slug":"changing-scientific-tale-human-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/05\/changing-scientific-tale-human-origins.html","title":{"rendered":"Changing the scientific tale of human origins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42317\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42317\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/05\/Louis_XIV_of_France.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42317\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-42317\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/05\/Louis_XIV_of_France-720x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The Sun King hisself \" width=\"597\" height=\"849\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Human evolution culminated in Louis IV of France \u2014 the \u201cSun King\u201d or \u201cLe Roi Soleil\u201d \u2014 whose humble cottage of Versailles is about twenty minutes by foot from where I\u2019m writing. Louis XIV makes me wonder whether our evolution was really worthwhile. \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A new discovery suggests that, contrary to common notions, Africa isn\u2019t the evolutionary home of humankind:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-05-scientists-million-year-old-pre-human-balkans.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cScientists find 7.2-million-year-old pre-human remains in the Balkans\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0one scientist cautions that speculations based upon the new discovery should be . . . well, cautious:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/articles\/2017\/05\/23\/did_humans_evolve_in_europe_a_new_discovery_fuels_the_debate_110286.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cDid Humans Evolve in Europe? A New Discovery Fuels the Debate.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Le Chesnay, France<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 A new discovery suggests that, contrary to common notions, Africa isn\u2019t the evolutionary home of humankind: \u00a0 \u201cScientists find 7.2-million-year-old pre-human remains in the Balkans\u201d \u00a0 However,\u00a0one scientist cautions that speculations based upon the new discovery should be . . . well, cautious: \u00a0 \u201cDid Humans Evolve in Europe? 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