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Photo credit: MIH83, via Pixabay.

Merry Christmas! #8 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Humans and Animals Are (Mostly) the Same Age?

I am intrigued, but to be honest, I don’t quite know what to make of it just yet, and don’t want to jump to any conclusions. Read More ›
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DNA
Photo credit: Christiaan Colen, via Flickr (cropped).

Does Barcoding DNA Reveal a Single Human Ancestral Pair?

I don’t think the study can claim all the things it does based on the evidence they have. Read More ›
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Photo: Levallois stone tool technology, by Muséum de Toulouse [CC BY-SA 3.0].

Rewriting Human Origins, Ongoing in East Asia

The reason all these new discoveries are so noteworthy is not because they represent the usual progress of science. Read More ›
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evolution
Photo credit: A display at the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, by Ryan Somma, via Flickr.

On Human Origins, Smithsonian Teaching Resources Oversell Evolution

Philosophical questions like who we are and where we came from are surely worth considering. But nothing in these documents will bring students closer to being able to do so in an informed manner. Read More ›
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Human Zoos — International, Still Being Airbrushed

The Belgian human zoo sounds exactly like the St. Louis equivalent just a few years later. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor on Animal Generosity

The failure to understand the gulf that separates humans from animals, and humans from machines, is a source of confusion to rival almost any other. Read More ›
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Beyond Adaptation: The Human Brain Is Something New

Our brains have vastly more ability than is needed for survival, most notably the capacity for language and abstract thought. Read More ›
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On Rosh Hashanah, a Note on Origins and Evidence

The origin and nature of man should be important to any thoughtful human being, of any religion or none. Read More ›
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Dabar Postscript

A participant did not like that I called his origins model “idiosyncratic,” or that I characterized the reaction to it as “cautious.” Oh well. Read More ›
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Adventures in New Places — A Conference on Human Origins

I asked fairly innocuous questions, realizing that I was being allowed to participate as long as I didn’t cause strife. Read More ›

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