Last year I read an interesting book by Michael Brandt on the age of mankind. He brings very strong empirical evidence that mankind cannot be older than 10,000 years.

Here is a review about the book:

http://www.wort-und-wissen.de/index2.ph ... s/b26.html


And here are the amazon reviews:

http://www.amazon.de/Wie-alt-Menschheit ... 82&sr=8-10

Unfortunately (at least as far I am aware of) there is no English version of this book. This could be for the vast majority here a problem. But I can only highly recommend it. It is a very important contribution in the age of Teilhard de Chardin.