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Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 8, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
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, cats, chimpanzees, Dogs, gorillas, great apes, humans, infants, mouse, Popular Science, researchers, Switzerland}

Researchers Are Stalled in Understanding the Origin of Human Language

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December 8, 2024

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What’s revealing in these types of studies is not what the researchers find but what the science media choose to make of them Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 7, 2024

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Neuroscience & Mind
Paleontology
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, algae, birds, chimpanzees, crows, invertebrates, Jane Goodall, Lucy, Max Planck Institute, octopuses, otters, tools}

Who (or What) First Used Tools?

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December 7, 2024

Neuroscience & Mind, Paleontology

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It’s not stone tool use that is exclusive to humans; vultures can do that too. It’s the ability to form abstract ideas. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 5, 2024

Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
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, Australian National University, feathers, Günter Bechly, human origins, Middle Palaeolithic, missing links, Neanderthals, New York University, Spain, tools}

More Discoveries Point to Neanderthal Intelligence

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December 5, 2024

Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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This very ancient people we know the most about can’t be the missing link that many paleontologists are looking for. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 2, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
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, animal rights, animal standing, conservation, courts, indigenous wisdom, legal standing, London, nature rights, rights, shipping, whales, windmills}

Now It’s “Whale Rights”

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December 2, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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As often is the case in nature rights activism, “indigenous wisdom” is invoked as somehow superior to modern conservation. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 1, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Closer to Truth, dementia, Georges Lemaître, hearing, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neurotransmitters, paradoxical lucidity, physicalism, Psychology Today, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, soul, terminal lucidity, The Immortal Mind, vision}

Can We Define the Soul Out of Existence?

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December 1, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Berkeley cognitive linguist George Lakoff argues that the soul could not really amount to much without a physical brain. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 28, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, academia, brain, Darwinism, evolution, Fornace, gratitude, Harvard University, intelligent design, Italy, James Tour, Lee Cronin, materialism, matter, Michael Denton, mind, Minding the Brain, Scuola di Filosofia di Fornace, Thanksgiving, The Miracle of Man}

Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are Michael Denton’s Top 3 Reasons for Optimism About ID

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November 28, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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One reason, Dr. Denton says, is the “relentless” growth of the ID movement, in academia and around the world. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 24, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, brain cells, cats, chimpanzees, genes, human brain, humans, ideas, mice, Nature (journal), neurons, proteins, RNA, University of California San Francisco}

What’s the Big Deal About the Human Brain?

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November 24, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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None of the features identified by neuroscientists explain why humans think about things that other animal life forms don't. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 21, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, arithmetic, brain damage, Carl Zimmer, dementia, human brain, Noam Chomsky, Plato, speech, stroke}

Do We Need Language to Think?

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November 21, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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For a long time, it was only a philosophical issue: Plato saw thinking as a conversation with oneself. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
November 14, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brains, C. elegans, coherence, complexity, cortex, crystals, efficiency, fruit flies, intelligent design, morphology, mouse, navigation, Neural Networks, neurons, neuroscience, optimization, pheromones, Research, specified complexity}

Design, Engineering, Specified Complexity: Appreciating the Fruit Fly Brain

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November 14, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Groundbreaking new research has documented the complexity and design of the brains of fruit flies. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 9, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, chimpanzees, human language, languages, monkeys, neuroscience, University of Portsmouth}

A Mystery: How Human Languages Came to Exist

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November 9, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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Neuroscientists wrestle with human language even more than poets or (for example) English majors do. Read More ›