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bonobo
bonobo
A bonobo at the San Diego Zoo, by Mike Richey / CC BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

Using Bonobos to Bash Human Exceptionalism

As podcaster Scott Adams would say, there is simply no “payday” for these people in recognizing what makes us, as humans, unique. Read More ›
Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata
Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata
Kimberella quadrata, an Edicaran organism, by Masahiro miyasaka / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Kimberella — Traces and a Trace-maker

The body fossils are generally positioned at the focal points of the fan-shaped scratch marks. Read More ›
The Three Graces, by Raphael
The Three Graces, by Raphael
The Three Graces, by Raphael / Public domain.

Doctor’s Diary: No “Butts” About It

An anthropologist writes that the evolution of bipedal-walking primates was primarily caused by the shifting of select bones and muscles in the pelvis. Read More ›
Kimberella quadrata with associated scratch marks
Kimberella quadrata with associated scratch marks
Photo: Kimberella quadrata with associated scratch marks as putative feeding traces, by Masahiro miyasaka / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Kimberella — Controversial Scratch Marks

A former teacher of mine was the late Adolf Seilacher, who was a leading authority on trace fossils and who for obvious reasons preferred to be called "Dolf." Read More ›
DNA
Image credit: Arek Socha, via Pixabay.

Tour, Meyer: Some Very Hard Problems Facing Origin-of-Life Research

The problems range from the extreme improbabilities associated with protein assembly, to what precisely has gone missing in the nanosecond when a cell dies. Read More ›
baby
baby
Photo credit: Christian Bowen, via Unsplash.

Why Should a Baby Live?

My title is adapted from a 2012 article by two philosophers, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva. Read More ›
gymnastics
Photo credit: Eugene Lim, via Unsplash.

Human Blood Flow — A Darwinian Explanation?

Physician Howard Glicksman explains the hugely complex blood flow systems required to keep us clear-headed and alive. Read More ›
Kimberella
Kimberella
Photo: Kimberella, by the paleobear from Lontananza, Loreto, Peru / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).

Reconstructing Kimberella — The Disputed Anatomy in Detail

Fossils often leave much room for very different interpretations of relatively poor evidence. Read More ›
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley
Photo: A view of Silicon Valley, San Jose, California, by Coolcaesar / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

“Poor Design”? Human Versus Biological Invention

Let’s compare the most ingenious technological inventions — from Silicon Valley, for example — with the inventions inscribed in carbon in “simple cells.” Read More ›
rooster
rooster
Photo: Will this rooster stand on the manure pile? By Remi Jouan / CC BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

Are Darwinists Backing Away from Falsification?

"If the rooster stands on the manure pile, as the folk saying goes, it will rain tomorrow or it will not rain tomorrow." Read More ›

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