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Photo: “Tree of Life,” a cave painting from Borneo, Indonesia, by Lhfage at English Wikipedia [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Do We Need Language to Think?

For a long time, it was only a philosophical issue: Plato saw thinking as a conversation with oneself. Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA/Frank Rubio.

Casey Luskin: The Origin and Uniqueness of Humans

Survive. Reproduce. Repeat. Is that all we’re here for? Some people make this claim. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Rishi Ragunathan, via Unsplash.

A Mystery: How Human Languages Came to Exist

Neuroscientists wrestle with human language even more than poets or (for example) English majors do. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Getting Stoned: Did It Shape Human Origins?

For a really wild excursion, nothing beats efforts to explain the evolution of the human mind. Read More ›
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Photo credit: West Point, U.S. Military Academy, via Flickr (cropped).

Is the Human Shoulder Badly Designed?

Watch an acrobat performing on the parallel bars. Or a baseball player pitching a fastball. Or an athlete swimming the butterfly. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 FR <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/fr/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Hobbits Thwart Darwinian Predictions Again

Evolutionists reliably tend to follow one foundational principle: “What must not be, cannot be!” Read More ›
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Photo credit: Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Human Nature of Neanderthals Supported Again

Extended caregiving for a strongly disabled child is a highly non-Darwinian behavior that indeeds suggests compassion on a level only found in humans. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Joy of (Neanderthal) Cooking

The Darwinian account of the human race would be much easier to believe in good faith if scientists could point to a clearly inferior and clearly human being. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Neanderthals Were a Lot More Like Humans than We Realize

There’s still much we don’t know and the evidence is sparse — due in part to the fact that Neanderthals probably had a relatively small overall population size. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Neanderthals Cared for Down Syndrome Children

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

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