Category: Cultural Anthropology

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 23, 2026

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Zoology
Tagged
, AI bots, bugs, consumers, DuckDuckGo, Duke University, economists, fast food, food, food products, hypocrisy, insects, investment, Jeffrey A. Tucker, Nature (journal), nutrition, pasta, preference cascade, preference falsification, protein, protein bars, self-censorship, Sentient Media, Seth Millstein, social pressure, soldiers, Timur Kuran, United Nations}

To Be Honest, Most Humans Don’t Want Insect Burgers

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 23, 2026

Cultural Anthropology, Zoology

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What’s going on here may well be a case of preference falsification, a concept developed by Duke University economist Timur Kuran. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 12, 2026

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __recommended, anthropology, apes, Barbie doll, Bayesian reasoning, Christianity, culture, dancing, Dungeons and Dragons, Elsevier, evolutionary requirements, feasting, human behavior, human origins, humanity, humans, indigenous peoples, Islam, John Speth, Judaism, movies, non-rational behaviors, praying, Quaternary Environments and Humans, singing, spirituality, survival, University of Michigan, war, witches, wizards}

Paper: Human Behavior Shows We’re “Far More Complex than Just a ‘Souped-Up’ Ape”

_{Casey Luskin
June 12, 2026

Cultural Anthropology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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How do we explain all the “mind-boggling sweep” of time-consuming behavior that isn’t directly necessary for survival? Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 29, 2026

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, ancient Greece, atheism, Atheists: The Origin of the Species, Avebury, Bishop of Exeter, Book of Job, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Church Fathers, Corsica, Darwinism, Dennis Harding, False Messiah, Gregory the Great, hochvart, Hugh Trevor-Roper, James Henry Froude, John Aubrey, Judeo-Christian tradition, Kellow Chesney, Lisbon earthquake, London, Middle High German, New Testament, Nick Spencer, Old Testament, Origin of Species, Peace of Augsburg, Pentre Ifan, Poor Henry, practical atheists, Ring of Brodgar, secularization, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stonehenge, symmetry thesis, The Nemesis of Faith, The Victorian Underworld, United Kingdom, University of Edinburgh, Voltaire}

“The Monster in the Sky”: Revisiting Atheism’s Creation Myth

_{Neil Thomas
January 29, 2026

Cultural Anthropology, Faith & Science, History of Science

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The fact that Darwin’s evolutionary ideas could not be shown to be scientifically coherent remained for the uncritical a side issue. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 21, 2025

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Evolution
Tagged
, art, beauty, death, evolution, fiction, honor, human life, human nature, literature, love, machines, meaning, movies, philosophers, pornography, Roger Scruton, scientism, social media, universe, Wheaton College}

In a Materialistic Universe, Literature Doesn’t Make Sense

_{Peter Biles
August 21, 2025

Cultural Anthropology, Evolution

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Some assume humanity’s longstanding appreciation for art, be it literary, visual, or musical, has evolutionary groundings. Read More ›

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Author
Tova Levengood

Date
July 14, 2025

Categories
Arts
Cultural Anthropology
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, autism, brain, brain activity, dancing, forethought, Health & Wellness, human uniqueness, humans, materialism, music, natural selection, Parkinson’s disease, piano, Reductionism, Stuart Burgess, synchrony, The Miracle of Man, Your Designed Body}

Designed to Dance? Here’s What Science Says

_{Tova Levengood
July 14, 2025

Arts, Cultural Anthropology, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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Dancing is not a mere add-on feature that came a couple of mutations after mankind figured out how to shamble. Read More ›

Bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson in Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC as setting sun illuminates interior of the monument

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
July 4, 2025

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bill Gates, Charles Darwin, Declaration of Independence, DNA, Founders, George Gaylord Simpson, human rights, Independence Day, intelligent design, John Adams, nature, Thomas Jefferson, United States, Watson and Crick}

Thomas Jefferson’s Embrace of Intelligent Design

_{Stephen C. Meyer
July 4, 2025

Cultural Anthropology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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On Independence Day, it is appropriate to review the sources of our rights as citizens. There is one source that is more basic than any other. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 22, 2025

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, American Humanist Association, anti-American propaganda, Bill Nye, chimpanzees, Daily Wire, disinformation, Donald Trump, genetic difference, Heritage Foundation, human beings, human exceptionalism, humans, ideology, museums, National Museum of Natural History, organisms, Plato's Revenge, Smithsonian Institution, Trump Administration}

Memo to the Smithsonian

_{David Klinghoffer
June 22, 2025

Cultural Anthropology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

3}

We are trying to bring some reasonable pressure to bear on the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and its scientifically inaccurate displays. Read More ›

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Date
January 9, 2025

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, archaic humans, brain, Denisovans, evolution, human origins, humans, modern humans, Neanderthals, Phys.org, researchers, skull, University of Padua}

Neanderthals May Be “Same Species” As Us

_{Science & Culture
January 9, 2025

Cultural Anthropology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Using coalescence analyses and molecular clock assessments, the researchers reconstructed a timeline of genetic events. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 22, 2023

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, ABC News, afterlife, Arizona State University, bioRxiv, brain, burial, Chris Stringer, documentary, eLife, evolution, fire, Homo naledi, Homo sapiens, human origins, humans, intelligence, Lee Berger, Natural History Museum, Nature (journal), paleoanthropology, peer review, religion, skeletons, The Guardian, University of Western Australia}

Peer Review Rejects Claims that Homo naledi Buried Dead, Used Fire, and Scrawled on Cave Wall

_{Casey Luskin
September 22, 2023

Cultural Anthropology, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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I could not find a single reviewer who accepted the claims of the papers. They were harshly critical of claims of intentional burial of the skeletons. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 1, 2022

Categories
Arts
Cultural Anthropology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Technology
Tagged
, Australopithecines, burial, creativity, culture, footprints, fossil record, Fossils and Human Evolution (series), Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, human origins, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, Oxford University Press, paleoanthropologists, paleontology, Washington University}

Human Origins: All in the Family

_{Casey Luskin
November 1, 2022

Arts, Cultural Anthropology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology, Technology

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If a Neanderthal walked down the street, appropriately dressed, you probably wouldn’t notice. Read More ›