Category: Paleontology

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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
July 6, 2026

Categories
Paleontology
Tagged
, development, fetal growth, Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany, growth, human forms, infants, Lower Bavaria, modern humans, Neanderthals, perinates, pregnancy, Royal Society Open Science, Sesselfelsgrotte cave, Thorsten Uthmeier}

Paper: Neanderthal Babies Developed Like Modern Humans

_{Casey Luskin
July 6, 2026

Paleontology

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Don’t miss the words of Professor Uthmeier: “both human forms.” What he’s saying is that both Neanderthals and modern humans were “human forms.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 22, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, ancestors, animal life, bilaterian animals, body plans, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian phyla, Casey Luskin, China, Ediacaran biota, fossil record, fossils, genetic information, geology, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, kelp, marine algae, paleontologists, paleontology, population genetics, preservation, Science (journal), symmetry, waiting times}

At Long Last, Have New Fossil Finds Solved the Cambrian Enigma?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 22, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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New fossil discoveries from China are being hailed as evidence that could reshape our understanding of the origin of complex animal life. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 5, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, bioRxiv, Bright Angel Shale, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Canadian Rockies, chelicerates, China, compound eyes, cosmos, Current Biology, Darwin's Dilemma, Douglas Axe, Ediacaran strata, fossil record, Grand Canyon, Hallucigenia, Illustra Media, Intelligent Design Collection, jellyfish, Jerry Harned, Jonathan Wells, Lad Allen, marine worms, Mark Edward Lewis, mites, Nature (journal), New York Times, olfactory organs, paleontology, Paul Nelson, PNAS, polychaetes, priapulids, Richard Sternberg, salmon, Science Advances, Science and Culture Today, scorpions, South Australia, spiders, stars, Stephen Meyer, The Origin of Species, The Privileged Planet, trilobites, Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Utah}

Cambrian Explosion Remains the Gift that Keeps on Giving

_{David Coppedge
June 5, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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These representative papers show that the Cambrian Explosion remains a huge enigma for evolutionists. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 2, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, A Biologist’s View, African elephants, Asian elephants, Bible, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, chimps, classes, computers, creations, Darwinism, designs, evolution, Evolution after Darwin, explosions, fossil record, Genesis, George Gaylord Simpson, Gorilla gorilla, Günter Bechly, Homo sapiens, human exceptionalism, humans, intelligent design, Jean Rostand, orders, Pan paniscus, phyla, software, species pair problem, theists, TimeTree.org, University of Chicago Press}

Günter Bechly and the “Species Pair” Problem

_{Granville Sewell
June 2, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Asian elephants (like the one at the top of this page) and their African counterparts apparently diverged about 8 million years ago. Read More ›

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post

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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post

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 21, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Paleontology
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, apes, BIO-Complexity, Brown University, Christians, Chromosomal Fusion, chromosomes, common ancestry, crocodiles, Daniel Kuebler, Darwin and Doctrine, Developmental Cell, DNA, Dover trial, Eugenie Scott, evolution, fish, Franciscan University of Steubenville, genes, genetic evidence, GULO, Günter Bechly, human chromosome 2, human genetic diversity, Kenneth Miller, National Center for Science Education, Ola Hössjer, paleontologists, Poland, pseudogenes, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, tetrapods, theistic evolution, tiktaalik}

Addressing More Icons of Theistic Evolution

_{Casey Luskin
May 21, 2026

Faith & Science, Genetics, Paleontology

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Professor Kuebler doesn’t acknowledge the pattern of explosions in the fossil record, but he does cite a supposed transitional form. Read More ›