Category: Human Origins and Anthropology

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 23, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, archeology, brain development, burial sites, cave walls, childhood development, cognitive functioning, culture, DNA, evolution, fossils, Friedrich Alexander University, genes, genetics, genome, human mind, human origins, Indiana University Bloomington, intelligence, Kyoto University, language, modern humans, Neanderthals, Nurnberg, researchers, Scientific American, Tom Schoenemann}

Get Smart: Neanderthals Progress from Brute to Beaut

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 23, 2026

Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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We must be ready to ask some questions about many of the evolution stories we have taken for granted. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 12, 2026

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __recommended, anthropology, apes, Barbie doll, Bayesian reasoning, Christianity, culture, dancing, Dungeons and Dragons, Elsevier, evolutionary requirements, feasting, human behavior, human origins, humanity, humans, indigenous peoples, Islam, John Speth, Judaism, movies, non-rational behaviors, praying, Quaternary Environments and Humans, singing, spirituality, survival, University of Michigan, war, witches, wizards}

Paper: Human Behavior Shows We’re “Far More Complex than Just a ‘Souped-Up’ Ape”

_{Casey Luskin
June 12, 2026

Cultural Anthropology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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How do we explain all the “mind-boggling sweep” of time-consuming behavior that isn’t directly necessary for survival? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 29, 2026

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, archaeologists, artifacts, backpacking, cosmos, Darwinian evolution, dentistry, elephants, fossils, geodes, geological features, Griffith University, hand stencil, Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, human genome, human mind, human origins, Indonesia, Middle Pleistocene, Moon, Neanderthals, PNAS, religion, Smithsonian Magazine, symbolic thinking, technology, timeline, tools}

It Was Technology, Not the Human Mind, that Advanced

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 29, 2026

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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At one time, we were encouraged to interpret ancient humans as a long, slow, Darwinian ascent of man. But maybe that didn’t really happen. Read More ›

group of neanderthal cavemen hunting a mammoth, stone age humans

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 27, 2026

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alps, anthropology, Ars Technica, Boston University, brain, cannibalism, dentistry, Hebrew University, human origins, humans, Jerusalem, Kiona N. Smith, Levant, Live Science, Neanderthals, Owen Jarus, paleontology, Patrick McNamara, shamanism, Sophie Berdugo, teeth, The Emergence of Religion in Human Evolution, Tinshemet Cave, toolkits, Villaescusa Fernández, writing}

Let’s Catch Up with the Neanderthals!

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 27, 2026

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Remember the famous Neanderthal brain that was supposed to be inferior to the modern one, rendering them the big, dumb brutes of legend? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 23, 2026

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Australopithecines, Australopithecus, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus africanus, bottleneck, chatbots, fossil record, Grok, Homo erectus, Homo ergaster, Homo sapiens, human origins, humanity, John Hawks, paleoanthropology}

Human Evolution Quote: Grok, Is This True?

_{Casey Luskin
May 23, 2026

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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People are always welcome to change their views in response to what they feel is convincing new evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 22, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, anthropology, Aosis, Australopithecines, Australopithecus, autosomes, body plan, body size, bottleneck, brain size, cladogenesis, faces, fossil record, Grok, hominids, Homo, Homo erectus, Homo ergaster, Homo sapiens, human origins, John Hawks, Journal of Molecular Biology and Evolution, Molecular Biology and Evolution, mtDNA, nuchal areas, nuclear DNA, paleoanthropology, population, population size, Religions (journal), Science and Faith in Dialogue, sex chromosomes, skeleton, speciation, Stephen Barr, University of Wisconsin–Madison}

Not Out of Context: Comments on Hawks et al. (2000)

_{Casey Luskin
May 22, 2026

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The lead author is John Hawks, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who has a popular blog on paleoanthropology. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 18, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Australopithecines, Australopithecus, brain size, cranial buttressing, dental function, evolution, First Things, God's Grandeur, Homo erectus, Homo rudolfensis, Homo sapiens, human origins, humans, Nature (journal), paleoanthropologists, paleontology, Stephen Barr, theology, University of Delaware}

Physicist Overstates the “Gradual” Nature of Human Origins in the Fossil Record

_{Casey Luskin
May 18, 2026

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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We’ve gone back and forth with Dr. Barr many times in the past. Mainstream paleoanthropologists acknowledge that the origin of humans is sudden and abrupt. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 17, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Africa, bioRxiv, Broad Institute, David Reich, Denisovans, DNA, DNA segments, Europe, geneticists, genetics, Germany, Gran Dolina, Harvard University Press, Homo antecessor, Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, humans, hybrids, interbreeding, Levallois tools, Michael Marshall, Middle East, mitochondrial DNA, Morocco, Neanderthals, New Scientist, ochre, Spain, stone tools, Y chromosome}

Harvard Geneticist Proposes Neanderthals Are Descended from Humans

_{Casey Luskin
April 17, 2026

Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Humans and Neanderthals are so similar that Neanderthals provide no evidence we are closely related to some type of primitive non-human. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 25, 2026

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Science Reporting
Tagged
, bipedalism, Casey Luskin, Come Let Us Reason Together, deception, error, evolutionary narrative, evolutionary scientists, fossil, fossil record, human ancestors, human origins, Lenny Esposito, media, paleoanthropology, researcher-to-specimen imbalance, researchers, Sahelanthropus tchadensis}

Luskin on Error Versus Deception in Human Origins Discussions

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 25, 2026

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology, Science Reporting

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How do you separate the facts from the narrative? That can be challenging these days, and the realm of science is no exception. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
March 25, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, apes, Arne Schirmacher, ATP, Australopithecus, Bible, Cambrian Explosion, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, designer, Energy, geneticists, German, grass, Günter Bechly, humans, Institute of Genetics, Köln, living fossils, Max Planck Institute, metabolic processes, mice, naturalism, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, nucleotide differences, origin of life, Peter Pan, protein sequences, Richard Dawkins, Science and Culture Today, subway, University of Bonn, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, yeast}

Geneticist W. E. Lönnig on Human-Chimp DNA Similarity, and Much More

_{Granville Sewell
March 25, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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"The same people who admit that they are unable to create a single blade of grass tell you that they are absolutely sure they know how it came about." Read More ›