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90. Alan Walker, “The Origin of the Genus Homo,” in The Origin and Evolution
of Humans and Humanness, ed. D. Tab Rasmussen (Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 1993),
31.
91. Ibid.
92. See Spoor et al., “Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret,
east of Lake Turkana, Kenya,” 688 –91; Seth Borenstein, “Fossils paint messy picture
of human origins,” MSNBC (August 8, 2007), accessed March 4, 2012,
t/fossils-paint-messy-picture-human-origins/.
93. Wood and Collard, “The Human Genus,” 65–71.
94. Gibbons, “ Who Was Homo habilis—And Was It Really Homo?, ” 1370– 71.
95. Wood’s views are described in Gibbons, “Who Was Homo habilis—And Was It
Really Homo?,” 1370–71. See also Wood and Collard, “The Human Genus,” 65 – 71.
96. Spoor, Wood, and Zonneveld, “Implications of early hominid labyrinthine
morphology for evolution of human bipedal locomotion,” 645–48.
97. Ibid.
98. Hartwig-Scherer and Martin, “Was ‘Lucy’ more human than her ‘child’?
Observations on early hominid postcranial skeletons,” 439 –49.
99. Ibid.
100. Sigrid Hartwig-Scherer, “Apes or Ancestors?” in Mere Creation: Science,
Faith & Intelligent Design, ed. William Dembski (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press,
1998), 226.
101. Ibid.
102. Ibid.
103. Dean Falk, “Hominid Brain Evolution: Looks Can Be Deceiving,” Science,
280 (June 12, 1998): 1714 (diagram description omitted).
104. Wood and Collard, “The Human Genus,” 65–71. Specifically, Homo erectus is
said to have intermediate brain size, and Homo ergaster has a Homo-like postcranial
skeleton with a smaller more australopithecine-like brain size.
105. Wood and Collard, “The Human Genus,” 65–71.
106. Terrance W. Deacon, “Problems of Ontogeny and Phylogeny in Brain-Size
Evolution,” International Journal of Primatology, 11 (1990): 237–82. See also
Terrence W. Deacon, “What makes the human brain different?,” Annual Review of
Anthropology, 26 (1997): 337–57; Stephen Molnar, Human Variation:Races, Types, and
Ethnic Groups, 5th ed. (Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2002), 189 (“The size of
the brain is but one of the factors related to human intelligence”).