I got a book last christmas called It Couldn't Just Happen by: Lawrence O. Richards, Anyway, I got in to it a lot more after seeing a poster about the big bang theory in the back of my science class. I was looking in my book on stuff that I thought was interesting or I learned in School, and I found a section on the Family Tree (human evolution), and I just learned about that about a month ago. I started reading and found that scientists gave out wrong information in my textbook and all my school also. The book had a reference to a article in Encyclopedia Britannica (15th addition). The article states " The popular conception that those people were slouched in poster and walked with a shuffling, bent-kneed gait seems to have been due in large part to faulty reconstruction of the skull base and to misinterpreted of certain features of the limb bones of one of the Neanderthal skeletons discovered early in the 20th century." (pg. 159)
This proves that your textbook is not always right.
Later in the book it goes on to say "They did not look like cavemen; they looked much more like the people in your hometown! And the skulls show that they had as much or more brain capacity than we do."( pg.159 )
Both of these are believable because there can be a mistake in a puzzle, and to make a mistake doing something harder like reconstructing a skeleton would make sense. And with such a mistake, it can lead to many different conclusions as you see in your textbook.
Hope you enjoyed this science talk ,
CJ
This proves that your textbook is not always right.
Later in the book it goes on to say "They did not look like cavemen; they looked much more like the people in your hometown! And the skulls show that they had as much or more brain capacity than we do."( pg.159 )
Both of these are believable because there can be a mistake in a puzzle, and to make a mistake doing something harder like reconstructing a skeleton would make sense. And with such a mistake, it can lead to many different conclusions as you see in your textbook.
Hope you enjoyed this science talk ,
CJ