In 1998, paleoanthropologist rick potts published an article in the yearbook of physical anthropology, a peer-reviewed journal. the article was titled “environmental hypotheses of hominin evolution.” which statement would discredit potts’s objectivity if it was included in the article? i believe the human race is capable of great things. the data show that the human population is adaptable. the fossil record suggests huge variations in the human population. variation allows for the process of evolution.