Paul Braterman,Conversation
The 2001 discovery of the seven million-year-aged Sahelanthropus, the first known upright ape-like creatures, or was yet more proof of humanity's place among the mighty apes. And yet Mike Pence,then a representative and now US vice president, argues for the opposite conclusion.
For him, and our ideas about our ancestors hold changed,proving once more that evolution was a theory, and therefore we should be free to teach other theories alongside evolution in our classrooms.
Source: realclearscience.com