Monsoon-driven wildfires may have shaped human evolution

 

Image courtesy of Famartin, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Joel Kontinen

A reconstruction of East Africa's environment 1.75 million years ago suggests wildfires spiked during wetter times, which may have influenced human evolution. 

Wet climatic spells didn’t quench wildfires in East Africa’s Turkana basin 1.75 million years ago. Instead, they fuelled them. That’s what chemical traces from ancient plants in the region seem to suggest, and this pattern could have shaped our hominin ancestors’ evolution, including the use of fire and tools.

Rich in hominin fossils and archaeological finds, the Turkana basin – sometimes dubbed the Cradle of Humankind – has long been considered important for understanding the lives of our early ancestors. These include Homo erectus, a species that appeared about 2 million years ago and that is regarded as one of our earliest recognisably human ancestor, 

According to Darwinists, climate has been an influenced in human evolution,  This is against that what Genesis says about how we got here. We were created in God’s image without any evolution.

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James Urquhat 2026 Monsoon-driven wildfires may have shaped human evolution | New Scientist14 August

Early hominin had human-like dexterity and gorilla strength

 

A model of Paranthropus boisei at the Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos, Spain. Image courtesy of Cro Magnon / Alamy

Evolutionists believe that ape men where the ancestors of modern men so they depict ancient men as having ape like features.

The first confirmed fossil hands of Paranthropus boisei show that this ancient relative was capable of making tools, but was also much stronger than modern humans

A pair of hands belonging to an enigmatic ancient hominin that lived around 1.5 million years ago has been found for the first time, revealing that they had gorilla-like strength alongside the dexterity to make tools.

Paranthropus boisei was first discovered by archaeologist Mary Leakey in 1959 at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. The skull was found alongside a type of stone tool known as Oldowan and it was claimed the species was the oldest known maker of stone tools. But because no hand fossils had been found, anthropologists couldn’t be sure that P. boisei had made them.

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James Woodford 2025 Early hominin Paranthropus boisei had human-like dexterity and gorilla strength | New Scientist 15 October

Neanderthal woman's face brought to life in stunning reconstruction

 

Image courtesy of the University of Cambridge; BBC Stunandertals dios/Jamie Simonds,

Joel Kontinen

The recreated head of "Shanidar Z'' shows a Neanderthal  woman who lived about 75,000 years ago. 

 “A Neanderthal skull that was crushed to bits 75,000 years ago has been pieced back together and used to recreate the face of a wise-looking archaic woman with dark, flowing hair.” 

“Archaeologists painstakingly pieced together the skull of the individual, who researchers have named Shanidar Z, from hundreds of flattened bone fragments discovered in the Iraqi Kurdistan,”

What do we know Neanderthals? According to Genesis, they were descendants of Noah. 

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Emily Cooke, 2024,  Neanderthal woman's face brought to life in stunning reconstruction | Live Science 2 May.