Posted on 05/02/2008 2:53:53 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode
The Upright Ape: A New Origin of the Species, Aaron Filler, 2007.
Editorial review:
Did apes evolve from humans?
Sudden abrupt changes in which entirely new types of organisms come into existence almost instantaneously do not fit the model of Modern Evolutionary Theory and the Darwinian model. In this remarkable 288 page book written by Harvard trained evolutionary biologist Aaron Filler, MD, Ph.D.--a student of Stephen Jay Gould and Ernst Mayr--we learn how modern biological evidence finally proves that sudden non-Darwinian evolution has played a major role in a number of major events in the history of life including the origin of humans.
Based on this updated biological information, Dr. Filler re-examines the latest fossil evidence to reveal that the human body form is far more ancient than has been widely accepted--emerging abruptly, apparently due to a Pax gene change--at the time of Morotopithecus 21.6 million years ago. As a consequence, Filler argues, there is now compelling evidence that apes descended from humans and not the other way around.
About the Author
Dr, Aaron G. Filler, M.D., Ph.D. studied evolutionary theory under some of the leading biologists and anthropologists of our time: Ernst Mayr, Stephen J. Gould, David Pilbeam, and Irven DeVore. A neurosurgeon at the Institute for Spinal Disorders at Cedars Sinai Medical Center and past associate director of the Comprehensive Spine Center at UCLA, Dr. Filler has been a leading innovator in medical imaging and neuroscience. He is the author of Do You Really Need Back Surgery? (Oxford University Press), as well as numerous scientific articles and patents. He resides in Santa Monica, California.
Excerpt:
"The third--and, for many people, the most important--revolution is the body plan change that sets a species of primates on the path toward becoming human 20 million years ago. What actually happened at this time is not what the scientific orthodoxy has taught over the years. The data presented in this book lead inevitably to the conclusion that the key initial event in human origins was similar to the key even that drove the dinosaur explosion and the mammalian explosion. Once again it was a sudden dorso-ventral transformation of the modules of the body axis--a remarkable reorganization of the vertebral column in which some parts moved forward and others shifted backward--that generated an upright species. In fact, the evidence shows that this upright species--most likely a ground walker--was the ancestor of both the great apes and man.The fact that this astonishing reorganization of the primate body design in the human ancestor has escaped the understanding of thousands of scientists across hundreds of years does not diminish its profound importance... The first fossil evidence of the transformation was discovered more than 40 years ago... A new fossil discovery made in 2004... confirms this remarkable event and will now force a dramatic reinterpretation of human evolution..."
This could perhaps explain Hillery.
Kos proves that there are monkeys capable of using keyboards after mankind invented them, so the theory is not so far fetched....
A flaw in that theory is if ape like humans were alive 21.6 million years ago, fossils should be fairly common...and they aren’t
Faced with hundreds of articles cited the journal, Current Contents, on similar topics, it always produces skepticism when a writer uses the phrase: "...evidence finally proves..."
On the contrary, facts are very very hard to come by and require certainly much, more than one study or a single book.
...and a lot more.
Ping
A vivid imagination.
ML/NJ
Thanks for the link. It certainly is thought provoking. Often the best explanations are the simplest.
Ancient chiropractors.
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