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What’s in a Name? Debating the Anthropocene Epoch

Earlier this month, geologists voted down a proposal to give the years since 1950 a geological name, the Anthropocene Epoch. Read More ›
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“Lived Experience” Is Science’s Blind Spot

They are right about the dead ends. But is it true that the dead ends result merely from ignoring human experience? Read More ›
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War on Human Exceptionalism Turns to Tool Use

As the academic war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out — and they don’t even notice. Read More ›
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Burials Reveal Prehistoric Cultures Valued Children with Down Syndrome

We’ve all probably heard from one pundit or another that prehistoric humans discarded children with disabilities, just as animals might. Read More ›
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Consciousness, a Hall of Mirrors, Baffles Scientists

To contemplate consciousness is, as professor of religion Greg Peterson put it, like looking into and out of a window at the same time. Read More ›
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Atheism’s Four Horsemen — Where Are They Now?

"For example, I look at Pharyngula, which during its heyday was the biggest atheist blog on the Internet." Read More ›
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Is Consciousness a Recent Development?

Few stopped to ask how a poet like Homer wrote the Iliad if he really was not conscious himself. Read More ›
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Human Origins and the Beginning of Art

There is now evidence of something like artwork among several ancient human types, not just Neanderthals. Thus, an academic controversy has arisen. Read More ›
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Were Neanderthals Religious?

We can’t poll long-dead Neanderthals on life, death, and the hereafter but the evidence we’ve dug up suggests they were thinking about that kind of thing. Read More ›
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Researchers: Goats Can Read Basic Human Emotions

Readers may wonder at first whether this research was worth doing, but hang on. It turns out that goats can understand basic emotions by voice alone. Read More ›

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