Human Evolution

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Scientist A says human evolution is a fact. He proposes hominid B as the youngest human ancestor, a creature who is clearly not human but which A claims evolved into us.

How did A determine that B is our daddy? By placing him in line through morphology (cranium,jaw,teeth similarities mostly).

Enter the following article:
The Unreliability of Hominid Phylogenetic Analysis Challenges The Human Evolutionary Paradigm

which discusses a research paper:

How reliable are human phylogenetic hypotheses?

a critique of phylogenies constructed using cladistics.

From the research article:

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The results of the parsimony and bootstrap tests indicate that cladistic analyses based on standard craniodental characters cannot be relied on to reconstruct the phylogenetic relationships of the hominoids, papionins, and, by extension, the fossil hominins. More problematically, the tests suggest that such analyses can strongly support phylogenetic hypotheses that are misleading.


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So why should I believe you guys, huh?