A great deal of scientific research has taken place since the early 1950s, and the case against Evolution is overwhelming. Regarding the origin of Adam's body, the most probable explanation is this: "Yes" to very rapid transformation/creation from "dust" (i.e., inorganic non-living matter) 19 and "No2 to Evolution from living matter. However, there has been no fully comprehensive discussion of Origins between specialists within the Catholic Church. Rather, it seems that views favorable to Evolution have tended to predominate, and commensurate attention has not been given to information unfavorable to Evolution.
Unfortunately, the papal permission of 1950 - for specialists to hypothesize only about man's origin from living matter - was blatantly exploited after the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958 by those who sought to accommodate evolutionary concepts to Catholic doctrine.
Humani Generis was misrepresented to convey the widespread impression that belief in Evolution is now accepted officially by the Magisterium. This distortion of truth about Origins has had a catastrophic effect among Catholics on their understanding of crucial Origins doctrines. The misrepresentation amounted to a debilitating assault on foundational doctrines such as Original Sin - an assault from which the Catholic Church is still reeling.
In spite of which Pope is reigning, Catholics loyal to the office of the papacy (many of whom have experienced the extremely distressing effects of loved ones leaving the Church in the unprecedented collapse of faith since the mid-1960s) are entitled to expect rigorous, fully informed comments from the successor of St. Peter on vital doctrinal matters which could affect the salvation of souls.
19 Special creation of Adam from pre-existent inorganic matter, in the form of elementary particles taken from the ground and instantly transformed into the body of an adult male human being.