French scientists called Peking Man monkey-like
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Claim
French scientists called Peking Man monkey-like.
Source
- Gish, Duane T., 1979. Evolution: The Fossils Say No! 3rd ed. San Diego: Creation-Life Publishers, pp. 139-140.
Responses
- Modern French language has only one word for "monkey" and "ape," which is "singe," which is the equivalent of the English word "primate." Of course Peking Man was ape-like. It was an ape, in the same way that modern humans are apes.
- This doesn’t matter because modern humans are not descended from Peking Man but instead evolved from Homo ergaster in Africa.
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Fallacies contained in this claim
- Appeal to Authority (this should be obvious)
- Exclusion (The fact that French has no single word to distinguish between "ape" and "monkey" is conveniently ignored)
- Equivocation (That the French use the word singe can be used refer to either monkey, ape, or primate is conveniently ignored, also)
External Links
- Mark Isaak's page for this claim [1]
Related claims
- Ten Peking Man skeletons were suppressed
- Peking Man was supposedly 500,000 years old, but all evidence has disappeared
- Anthropologists disagree
- Homo habilis is an invalid taxon
