Tag: anthropology

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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, Bobby Azarian, 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, handy man, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, human evolution, human origins, Iron Age, Jackson Wheat, Kenya, Koobi Fora, Mary Leakey, 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, funerals, Homo naledi, humans, Iraq, Israel, Live Science, Neanderthals, Oxford University Press, paleontologists, Shanidar Cave, skeletons, South Africa, University of Arizona, Zagros Mountains}

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, atrocities, baboons, Big Bang, cognitive dissonance, determinism, facts, free will, Hamas, innocents, Jerry Coyne, Kenya, libertarian free will, Moral Law, murder, nature, neurotransmitters, Raoul Wallenberg, 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
, Andrew Newberg, anthropology, brain, brain imaging, compassion, fMRI, materialism, medicine, neurology, neuroscience, neurotheology, 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 ›

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Date
August 31, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, anthropology, archeology, BioLogos, Brown University, Charles Darwin, Darwinists, Deborah Haarsma, evolution, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, James T. Costa, Kenneth Miller, Michael Flannery, Modern Synthesis, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Reductionism, teleology, The Descent of Man, The World of Life}

Biology’s “Best-Kept Secret” — Alfred Wallace’s Classic Is Out Now in a New Edition

_{Science and Culture
August 31, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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On the subject of evolution, the scientific “consensus” depends on maintaining the our forgetfulness of Charles Darwin’s great partner, rival, and challenger. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 6, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, anthropology, culture, Darwinism, evolutionists, humans, intimacy, materialistic science, police, Portland, protests, sex, speech, Yitzchak Ben Mocha}

Evolution Can’t Explain Sexual Modesty; Why Not?

_{David Klinghoffer
August 6, 2020

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Darwinism is supposed to be a universal theory about biological diversity advancing through reproduction. Could such a basic observation be beyond its scope? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 6, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, anthropology, apes, evolution, females, humans, males, mammals, natural selection, sex, Yitzchak Ben Mocha}

Privacy in Human Intimacy Isn’t About Evolution

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 6, 2020

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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We transcend the strictly material forces that spur natural selection. We, alone in the known universe, are moral beings. Read More ›