HomoerectusdioramaattheHallofHumanOriginsatAMNH Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date May 29, 2026 CategoriesHuman Origins and AnthropologyPaleontology 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 4 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-hum-628718036-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date May 27, 2026 CategoriesHuman Origins and AnthropologyPaleontology 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 6 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 ›
