Tag: anthropology

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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 ›

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 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
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 31, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Paleontology
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Africa, animal behavior, anthropology, antiquity, BBC News, Bronze Age, chimpanzees, Côte D’Ivoire, dehumanization, England, Homo sapiens, human mind, humans, Ice Age, Merlin, monkeys, polar bears, Stone Age, stone tools, Stonehenge, tools, vultures}

Science Writing Tries to Smash Human Exceptionalism

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 31, 2025

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Paleontology, Science Reporting

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Stone tool use among animals versus the Stone Age provides a useful illustration of the tendency. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 5, 2024

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thinking, anthropology, Aristotle, behavior, Big Think, consciousness, evolution, human mind, human origins, neuroscientists, panpsychism, Roger Penrose, Stone Age}

Getting Stoned: Did It Shape Human Origins?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 5, 2024

Evolutionary Psychology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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For a really wild excursion, nothing beats efforts to explain the evolution of the human mind. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 22, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, anthropology, common descent, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), Gutsick Gibbon, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, human evolution, human origins, Iron Age, Jackson Wheat, Kenya, monkeys, Olduvai Gorge, paleoanthropology, paleontology, Professor Dave, Tanzania, University of Texas, Wikipedia}

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

_{Günter Bechly
March 22, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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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 ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 2, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, animals, anthropology, birds, death, Dogs, Eurasia, Homo naledi, humans, Israel, Live Science, Neanderthals, Oxford University Press, paleontologists, skeletons, South Africa, University of Arizona}

When Did Humans Start Burying the Dead?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 2, 2023

Bioethics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Only humans understand death as the inevitable and final reality for all mortal beings no matter what we do. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 23, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, anthropology, atheism, atoms, baboons, Big Bang, cognitive dissonance, determinism, facts, free will, Hamas, Jerry Coyne, Kenya, libertarian free will, Moral Law, murder, nature, neurotransmitters, Robert Sapolsky, soul, Stanford University, tornado, war, Why Evolution Is True}

Evolutionist Jerry Coyne Has a Puzzling View on Hamas

_{Michael Egnor
October 23, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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The moral atrocity committed by Hamas seems not to have diminished Professor Coyne’s passion for atheism, determinism, and free will denial. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 6, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, anthropology, brain, brain imaging, compassion, fMRI, materialism, medicine, neurology, neuroscience, prayer}

The Brain Prosperity Gospel: Can “Neurotheology” Be Real Science?

_{Michael Egnor
June 6, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Neurotheology is likely to become just another materialist fad in which the human rational and spiritual soul is reduced to evolved meat. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 15, 2020

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Tagged
, anthropology, apes, basketball, bipedalism, chimpanzees, Doctor's Diary (series), evolution, fossils, humans, intelligence, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Lucy, pelvis, Rutgers University}

Doctor’s Diary: No “Butts” About It

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 15, 2020

Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics

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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 ›