About this video from PBS, "There Was No First Human," recommended by Jerry Coyne, it's hard to know where to begin. The host's attitude? The snarky graphic "It's Okay to Be Smart"? Well, let's just stick to the factual errors. There is no continuous stack of photos documenting our unbroken history all the way back to our "fishy ancestor" Tiktaalik. It is true that fossils are snapshots of the past. But the idea of continuous gradual change is an inference not documented by the fossil record...
Published on August 28, 2014 04:38