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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 6, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Africa, apes, Bronx Zoo, conscience, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, evolutionary biology, Final Solution, human evolution, Human Zoos, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, racists, scientific racism, St. Louis World's Fair, The Descent of Man}

West, Metaxas: Face It, Darwinian Theory Is Itself Racist

_{David Klinghoffer
August 6, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution

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This malign record is no mere inexplicable aberration from an otherwise innocent scientific theory. The legacy is not a mistake. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
May 11, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, apes, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, civilization, culture, film, humans, intelligence, knowledge, movies, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, pandemic, tyranny, universe, viruses}

An Ape with Evolution on His Mind

_{Peter Biles
May 11, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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“Are you familiar with the concept of evolution?” asks the ape leader who is bent on raising himself to the level of the human. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 17, 2023

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, apes, babies, chimpanzees, experimentation, human mind, humans, materialism, parents, Smithsonian Magazine}

When a Child and a Chimp Were Raised Together

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 17, 2023

Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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When their son was ten months old, a psychologist couple decided to raise him alongside a baby female chimpanzee, for research purposes. Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
June 19, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, apes, bananas, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, cooking, curiosity, evolution, Harvard University, human mind, humans, music, Stephen Jay Gould, Western culture}

Good as Gould? Ask a Chimp

_{David Berlinski
June 19, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Read More ›

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Author
Olufemi Oluniyi

Date
March 6, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Africans, apes, barbarians, Carl Linnaeus, Caucasians, Charles Darwin, ethnicity, evolution, fitness, humans, intelligence, On the Origin of Species, Racism, Richard Weikart, savages, Social Darwinism}

Darwin’s Contribution to Racial Extermination

_{Olufemi Oluniyi
March 6, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

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These men and others argued that the logical extrapolation of Darwin’s theory was the extermination of their fellow humans in the name of evolutionary progress! Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 9, 2022

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, apes, brain, crows, cuttlefish, Dogs, dolphins, elephants, intelligence, MicroRNAs, nervous system, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, octopuses, Oregon, RNA, squid, vertebrates, whales}

MicroRNAs: A New Clue About Octopus Intelligence?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 9, 2022

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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While octopus brains are very different from vertebrate brains, they share with vertebrates, a huge number of microRNAs. Read More ›

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Date
November 20, 2022

Categories
Biology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, apes, cats, consciousness, Eva Jablonka, evolution, Irreducible Complexity, Martin Luther King Jr., mice, Mother Teresa, Psychology Today, University of Toronto}

Evolution of Human Consciousness Solved! — Yet Again

_{Science & Culture
November 20, 2022

Biology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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What does the term “evolution” contribute to the discussion of the origin of human consciousness? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 24, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, apes, Charles Darwin, fossil record, Fossils and Human Evolution (series), gradualism, Harvard University, Henry Gee, hominids, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, humans, jaws, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, paleoanthropology, Richard Lewontin, Ronald Wetherington, skulls, Southern Methodist University, Stephen Jay Gould, Texas State Board of Education, textbooks}

Do Fossils Demonstrate Human Evolution? Let’s Consider the Technical Literature

_{Casey Luskin
October 24, 2022

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Far from “a nice clean example” of “gradualistic evolutionary change” that has “no gaps,” the fossil record shows a dramatic discontinuity. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 23, 2022

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, apes, Apollo 11, BBC, Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, humans, Ida, media, missing links, monkeys, Norway, paleontology, primates, Wikipedia}

Fossil Friday: Darwinius, or How Wishful Thinking Makes a Missing Link

_{Günter Bechly
September 23, 2022

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The media campaign lead to headlines that were not content with calling the fossil a missing link but simply “THE link” or “the eighth wonder of the world.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2022

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Philosophy
Science
Tagged
, apes, chimpanzees, Closer to Truth, genomes, illusion, neurons, neuroscience, qualia, religion, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, rocks, self}

Can Red Have “Redness” if No Self Perceives It?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 8, 2022

Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life, Philosophy, Science

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Is not the fact that we are having these discussions the best available evidence that we are not “just overgrown apes or undergrown apes”? Read More ›