Category: Human Origins and Anthropology | Page 9

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 29, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, abortion, babies, Denmark, Down syndrome, Iceland, Neanderthals, Peter Singer, The Guardian, United States}

Neanderthals Cared for Down Syndrome Children

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 29, 2024

Bioethics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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It may now be that more babies with Down syndrome are killed in the womb than are born. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 20, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, angels, animals, Bruce Chapman, Center for Science and Culture, creator, drug addiction, George Gilder, harm reduction, homelessness, human being, Humanize, humans, intelligent design, Jonathan Choe, journalism, mental illness, Steven Buri, think tank, vision, Wesley J. Smith}

Steven Buri, Wesley Smith: What Is a Human Being?

_{David Klinghoffer
June 20, 2024

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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That politicians and activists can watch their fellow men wallow in degradation this way is itself a twisted tribute to human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Date
June 14, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, anesthesia, antibiotics, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, cooking, evolution, Homo floresiensis, human mind, Neanderthals, Neil Thomas, Ota Benga, paleontologists, sexual selection, sterilization, teeth, tools}

Evolutionists Are Stymied by the Human Mind

_{Science & Culture
June 14, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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Media love natural histories of the mind. Advocates have proposed mental illness, chimpanzees throwing excrement, and baby slings as the accidental spark. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 31, 2024

Categories
Biology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, butterflies, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ghost lineages, lineages, molecular clocks, phylogeny, Stuttgart Natural History Museum}

Fossil Friday: Zygaenid Moths — Molecular Clock vs Fossil Record

_{Günter Bechly
May 31, 2024

Biology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The ubiquitous mismatch between molecular clocks and the fossil record clearly represents data to be explained. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
May 29, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, aborigines, Africans, Alfred Russel Wallace, baboons, Caucasians, Charles Darwin, Europeans, fossil record, gorillas, history, HMS Beagle, humans, intelligence, John Stuart Mill, On the Origin of Species, Racism, Richard Weikart, species, stem, Texas, The Descent of Man, Tierra del Fuego, United Nations}

Darwin’s Racism of the Gaps

_{Jonathan Witt
May 29, 2024

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Scientific Reasoning

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A defender of Darwinism might object that it’s silly to ding Darwin for his racism, since just about every white person in Victorian England was racist. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
May 11, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, apes, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, civilization, culture, film, humans, intelligence, knowledge, movies, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, pandemic, tyranny, universe, viruses}

An Ape with Evolution on His Mind

_{Peter Biles
May 11, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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“Are you familiar with the concept of evolution?” asks the ape leader who is bent on raising himself to the level of the human. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 19, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, "Out of Africa", Africans, bioRxiv, Current Biology, Fossil Friday (series), intelligent design, introgression, Nature (journal), Nature Genetics, Neanderthal DNA, Neanderthals, Nobel laureates, non-Africans, paleontology, PNAS, population size, Science (journal), scientific community, Svante Pääbo, University of Cambridge}

Fossil Friday: Suppressed Dissent About Neanderthal DNA in Modern Humans

_{Günter Bechly
April 19, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The case of Professor William Amos represents an interesting parallel with dissenters in the intelligent design community. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 29, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, Asia, Australopithecines, Chris Stringer, Darwin critics, Eurasia, Europe, evolutionary narrative, Fossil Friday (series), gene flow, gravity, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, Homo naledi, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, Israel, Misliya cave, modern humans, Natural History Museum, Pleistocene, population genetics}

Fossil Friday: New Dating of Pleistocene Fossils Rewrites the Story of Human Evolution

_{Günter Bechly
March 29, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The most recent data on human fossils and their dating do not really support an evolutionary narrative from ape-like ancestors to modern humans. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 22, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, anthropology, common descent, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), Gutsick Gibbon, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, human evolution, human origins, Iron Age, Jackson Wheat, Kenya, monkeys, Olduvai Gorge, paleoanthropology, paleontology, Professor Dave, Tanzania, University of Texas, Wikipedia}

Fossil Friday: Stone Huts, Homo habilis, and Gutsick Gibbon

_{Günter Bechly
March 22, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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A PhD student of biological anthropology named Erika runs one of the more popular anti-creationist YouTube channels under her pseudonym Gutsick Gibbon. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 3, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstraction, animals, archaeologists, chimpanzees, crows, dolphins, hands, Harvard University, life forms, monkeys, octopuses, Oxford University, sea urchins, tools}

War on Human Exceptionalism Turns to Tool Use

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 3, 2024

Environment & Climate, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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As the academic war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out — and they don’t even notice. Read More ›