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Genetic Differences Between Humans and Chimps Represent Functional DNA

I contacted the corresponding authors of the original study and they kindly offered their interpretation of the differences between the human and chimp genomes. Read More ›
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Fact Check: New “Complete” Chimp Genome Shows 14.9 Percent Difference from Human Genome

I suspect that this radical finding has implications — for human exceptionalism and more — that people will be discussing for a long time. Read More ›
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Bombshell: New Research Overturns Claim that Humans and Chimps Differ by Only 1 Percent of DNA

This finding should be major news in the science world, yet those involved don’t seem interested in highlighting the discovery. Read More ›
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Photo: Mezmaiskaya Cave, by Zurab dip, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Slow-Witted? Neanderthals Invented Their Own Tech — Didn’t Copy

Neanderthals cannot be the missing link that many paleontologists are looking for. But if the human mind has no history, there is no missing link. Read More ›
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Scopes “Monkey” Trial Is Turning One Hundred

Almost nothing happened quite the way the stereotypes have portrayed it since then. Read More ›
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On Evolution, Pope Francis Spoke and the Media Got it Wrong

According to Pope Francis, evolution per se still requires a Creator and cannot be the result of purely physical causes. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Sacred Fiction

A book by Adrian Desmond and James Moore holds that Charles Darwin was significantly motivated in his scientific work by abolitionist sentiments. Read More ›
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Neanderthals Keep Getting Smarter

At one time, Neanderthals were considered stupid. Things have changed. Meanwhile, they are presenting some mysteries. Read More ›
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Photo: Melka Kunture, by Richard Mortel from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

How Evolutionary Theory Confuses the Study of Human History: Case of the Stone Spheres

Any state of affairs that dates to eons ago can be referred to as “evolution” even when, as in this case, the facts imply the opposite. Read More ›
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Abstract Reasoning in Our Ancestors Earlier than Thought?

Researchers say, bone tools were being mass produced 1.5 million years ago in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Read More ›

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