Category: Human Origins and Anthropology | Page 9

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 8, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, adults, cave art, charcoal, children, footprints, human development, human mind, human origins, human technology, Ice Age, Italy, Russia, Stone Age, stone tools}

Childhood in the Ice Age — What Was It Like?

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January 8, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Having reached a point now known as the “Sala dei Misteri,” they left signatures of their time there. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 16, 2023

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Africa, culture, evolution, fire, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo naledi, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, human origins, humans, interbreeding, Journal of Human Evolution, last common ancestor, Middle Palaeolithic, Neanderthals, PLOS ONE, Portugal, Science Alert, stereotypes, stone tools, University of Trento}

Were Neanderthals and Humans the Same Species?

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November 16, 2023

Archaeology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The evidence does not demonstrate that humans evolved from some kind of humanlike yet intellectually primitive precursor. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 15, 2023

Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, burial, cave walls, chronology, erosion, fossils, geochemistry, hominins, Homo naledi, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, human origins, hype, IFL Science, intelligence, Journal of Human Evolution, Lee Berger, media, micromorphology, Netflix, paleoanthropologists, Rising Star Cave, South Africa, spectroscopy, taphonomy, tools}

Journal Rejects Claims that Homo naledi Buried Dead, Made Rock Art, Used Fire

_{Casey Luskin
November 15, 2023

Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Researchers, led by Lee Berger, had claimed in a Netflix documentary that the species buried its dead, used fire, used tools, and made rock art. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 2, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, animals, anthropology, birds, death, Dogs, Eurasia, funerals, Homo naledi, humans, Iraq, Israel, Live Science, Neanderthals, Oxford University Press, paleontologists, Shanidar Cave, skeletons, South Africa, University of Arizona, Zagros Mountains}

When Did Humans Start Burying the Dead?

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November 2, 2023

Bioethics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Only humans understand death as the inevitable and final reality for all mortal beings no matter what we do. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abortion, Africa, Casey Luskin, consciousness, evolutionary biology, fish, flatworm, fossil record, gestation, Gregory Chaitin, hominins, human intelligence, human mind, human origins, Israel, meat, mollusks, mussels, Neanderthals, pain, poetry, pseudoscience, tools}

The Human Mind Has No History

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 19, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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There is no good reason to assume that human intelligence evolved from mud to mind via a long slow history. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 17, 2023

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, apes, babies, chimpanzees, Cyril Burt, experimentation, human mind, humans, materialism, parents, Smithsonian Magazine}

When a Child and a Chimp Were Raised Together

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 17, 2023

Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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When their son was ten months old, a psychologist couple decided to raise him alongside a baby female chimpanzee, for research purposes. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 9, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, ABC News, Casey Luskin, cave art, fire, Homo naledi, human origins, ID the Future, intelligence, Lee Berger, Marketing, Netflix, podcast, preprints}

Not Enough Evidence: Casey Luskin on Recent Homo naledi Claims

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 9, 2023

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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They claim that the small-brained species had high intelligence and engaged in activities like burying their dead, using fire, and engaging in cave wall art. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 5, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science Education
Tagged
, Athena, Australopithecines, biological origins, butterfly, California Science Center, Cambrian Explosion, chimpanzees, Christmas, David Coppedge, Discovery Institute, education, evolution, free speech, French Revolution, Genetics (journal), Günter Bechly, human brains, human origins, Human Origins Program, Human Zoos, humans, intelligent design, Jeffrey Schwartz, John West, mammals, mosasaurs, National Museum of Natural History, Niles Eldredge, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Racism, Richard Sternberg, Rick Potts, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, scientific racism, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Washington DC, Zeus}

Visitor’s Guide: At Nation’s Natural History Museum, Misinformation on Human Origins, and More

_{Casey Luskin
October 5, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Science Education

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Mammalian fossil exhibits at the Smithsonian claim that humans and all mammals descended from the “first mammal," perhaps Morganucodon. 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, Dinaledi Chamber, documentary, eLife, evolution, fire, Homo naledi, Homo sapiens, human origins, humans, intelligence, La Trobe University, Lee Berger, María Martinón-Torres, micromorphology, 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
September 20, 2023

Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, fire, fossil record, Homo sapiens, human intelligence, human origins, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, Science Daily, spears, University of Liverpool}

Evidence of Woodworking Extends High Human Intelligence Far Back into the Mid-Pleistocene

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September 20, 2023

Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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This rare find shows that some of the very human-like forms in the fossil record were actually much smarter than we thought. Read More ›