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The Formation of Our Digits Points to a Process with Foresight

Our digits are sculpted from a paddle-like structure in the embryo through the process of apoptosis. Read More ›
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War on Human Exceptionalism Turns to Tool Use

As the academic war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out — and they don’t even notice. Read More ›
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Man, with His Special Place in Nature, Was Designed to Use Fire

Only a special type of being very close to our own biological design could have taken the first and vital step to technological enlightenment, fire-making. Read More ›
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Remarkably, Humans Are Just the Right Size to Make and Master Fire

Only an organism of our dimensions and android design — 1.5 to 2 meters in height with arms about 1 meter-long ending in manipulative tools — can handle fire. Read More ›
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Egnor Versus Shallit: Can Brains Learn?

Egnor he nails it by noting that Shallit, not uniquely, falls victim to the mereological fallacy. Read More ›
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Thanks, Dr. Oz — Our Favorite Super Bowl Ad, a Beautiful Celebration of Complex Senses

Let’s examine the subject in a little more depth than what a commercial can do in a minute and thirty seconds: Read More ›
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Design at Your Fingertips: Researchers Struggle to Model Sense of Touch

Your hands feel in detail thanks to tens of thousands of sensors, and detailed information encoded by their positions and firing times. Read More ›

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