[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Excuse me but mitochondrial DNA tests have already refuted the notion that Neanderthal was an ancestor of homo sapiens. And why is a modern chimp skull in that illustration? I was actually referring to the pictorial progression common in high school text books that sport the crawling modern day chimpanzee progressing up to modern man, along with the piltdown man fraud and the neanderthal giant. A more accurate projection would of course show Eve. :-)

[VadeRetro]

Excuse me but mitochondrial DNA tests have already refuted the notion that Neanderthal was an ancestor of homo sapiens.

Not exactly. Mitochondrial DNA tests have failed to show that humans have any mitochondrial DNA from neanderthals. Apparently all creationists have essentially the same package of misinformation and make the same sweeping mistatement on the subject.

A survey of the "ancient DNA" genetic evidence. I'm going to trust you to read it and not make me paste it out on the thread. There will be a quiz question, namely, "How does the status reported in this survey of the studies differ from what you reported above?"

And why is a modern chimp skull in that illustration?

So you can see how close to a modern chimp an Australopithecus was.

I was actually referring to the pictorial progression common in high school text books that sport the crawling modern day chimpanzee progressing up to modern man, along with the piltdown man fraud and the neanderthal giant.

Piltdown Man in high school textbooks!? Here you sink to lying. What does the Bible say about bearing false witness? Or maybe you mean creationist schools?

A more accurate projection would of course show Eve. :-)

Sorry I don't still have my Little Golden Book of Bible Stories to post real science pictures for you. Somewhere along the way it got lost.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Could you show which recent textbook claims Piltdown Man as other than a fraud? Piltdown was shown to be a fraud before the 1920s. Only British scientists really supported Piltdown in the first place. Most American and Continental scientists rejected Piltdown because the Piltdown skeleton didn't conform to evolutionary theory. Carbon dating later established that the bones were not of the same age.