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Darwin’s Racism of the Gaps 

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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Photo: A scene from Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, via YouTube (screenshot).

An Ape with Evolution on His Mind

“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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Fossil Friday: Suppressed Dissent About Neanderthal DNA in Modern Humans

The case of Professor William Amos represents an interesting parallel with dissenters in the intelligent design community. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: New Dating of Pleistocene Fossils Rewrites the Story of Human Evolution

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

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 ›
capuchin monkey
Photo credit: Tiago Falótico, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

War on Human Exceptionalism Turns to Tool Use

As the academic war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out — and they don’t even notice. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Gobierno de Navarra/J.L. Larrion, via Phys.org.

Burials Reveal Prehistoric Cultures Valued Children with Down Syndrome

We’ve all probably heard from one pundit or another that prehistoric humans discarded children with disabilities, just as animals might. Read More ›
Homer
Photo: Homer, British Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Consciousness a Recent Development?

Few stopped to ask how a poet like Homer wrote the Iliad if he really was not conscious himself. Read More ›
Cupules
Photo: Cupules, by Max Ronnersjö, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Human Origins and the Beginning of Art

There is now evidence of something like artwork among several ancient human types, not just Neanderthals. Thus, an academic controversy has arisen. Read More ›
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Image credit: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Were Neanderthals Religious?

We can’t poll long-dead Neanderthals on life, death, and the hereafter but the evidence we’ve dug up suggests they were thinking about that kind of thing. Read More ›

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