Tag: hominins

black swiss army knife on wood color toned

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 7, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, biology, culture, Euripides, evolution, Frances Forrest, George Washington University, Homer, hominins, human beings, human origins, Kenya, Nature Communications, Niguss Baraki, Pliocene, Science Daily, Swiss Army knives, technology, tools, Turkana Basin}

“First Multi-Purpose ‘Swiss Army Knives’ Made by Hominins”

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 7, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The tools date from about 2.75 through 2.44 million years ago (Pliocene). They underwent little change over the years, despite the changing environment. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 21, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Technology
Tagged
, Adam Brumm, artifacts, Asia, Australia, Australopithecines, Bruce Bower, Budianto Hakim, Flores, Flores man, Griffith University, hobbits, hominins, Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis, human body, human mind, Indonesia, Jakarta, National Research and Innovation Agency, Neanderthal art, Neanderthals, Science Alert, Science News, stone tools, technology, tools, Wallacea}

New Find: Stone Tools from 1 to 1.5 Million Years Ago

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 21, 2025

Archaeology, Technology

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The human body may have a history and human technology definitely has a history but the human mind does not. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 28, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ancestors, archaeologists, Asia, axes, blades, bones, China, evolution, fruits, Gantangqing, grapes, herbs, history, hominins, human mind, humans, leaves, meat, Michael Egnor, Middle Pleistocene, Mihai Andrei, nuts, rhizomes, seeds, The Immortal Mind, tools, tubers, wooden tools, ZME Science}

Prehistoric Humans Were Not So Brutish After All

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 28, 2025

Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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Overall, our ancestors have persistently failed to be anywhere near as stupid as current evolutionary theory requires. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 1, 2025

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Technology
Tagged
, abstract reasoning, Addis Ababa, balls, behavior, Ethiopia, evolution, game pieces, geology, hominins, human evolution, human history, human mind, human origins, Margherita Mussi, Melka Kunture, Moon, Olduvai Gorge, spheres, stone spheres, stones, toolmakers, Tudor Tarita, ZME Science}

How Evolutionary Theory Confuses the Study of Human History: Case of the Stone Spheres

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 1, 2025

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology, Technology

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Any state of affairs that dates to eons ago can be referred to as “evolution” even when, as in this case, the facts imply the opposite. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 24, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Technology
Tagged
, abstract reasoning, Acheulean age, ancestors, bone tools, bones, elephants, hippos, hominins, human mind, knapping, Neanderthal man, paleontology, Renata F. Peters}

Abstract Reasoning in Our Ancestors Earlier than Thought?

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 24, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology, Technology

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Researchers say, bone tools were being mass produced 1.5 million years ago in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 7, 2024

Categories
Arts
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Paleontology
Tagged
, archeology, baboons, beavers, Darwinian theory, genetic admixture, Günter Bechly, hominins, human origins, humans, Neanderthals, paleontologists, primates, rocks, symbolic thinking, symbols, Tom Metcalfe}

Human Origins and the Beginning of Art

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 7, 2024

Arts, Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Paleontology

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There is now evidence of something like artwork among several ancient human types, not just Neanderthals. Thus, an academic controversy has arisen. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 15, 2023

Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, burial, cave walls, chronology, erosion, fossils, geochemistry, hominins, Homo naledi, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, human origins, hype, IFL Science, intelligence, Journal of Human Evolution, Lee Berger, media, micromorphology, Netflix, paleoanthropologists, Rising Star Cave, South Africa, spectroscopy, taphonomy, tools}

Journal Rejects Claims that Homo naledi Buried Dead, Made Rock Art, Used Fire

_{Casey Luskin
November 15, 2023

Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Researchers, led by Lee Berger, had claimed in a Netflix documentary that the species buried its dead, used fire, used tools, and made rock art. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abortion, Africa, Casey Luskin, consciousness, evolutionary biology, fish, flatworm, fossil record, gestation, Gregory Chaitin, hominins, human intelligence, human mind, human origins, Israel, meat, mollusks, mussels, Neanderthals, pain, poetry, pseudoscience, tools}

The Human Mind Has No History

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 19, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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There is no good reason to assume that human intelligence evolved from mud to mind via a long slow history. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 28, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Australopithecus, cannibalism, clickbait, Darwin critics, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, hominins, Homo erectus, Homo ergaster, Homo habilis, Koobi Fora, Mary Leakey, New York Times, Paranthropus, predictions, taxonomy, tibia}

Fossil Friday: Another Prediction Vindicated

_{Günter Bechly
July 28, 2023

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The virtual ink for my article had hardly dried when a story about a new discovery hit the news. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, evolutionary icons, Gizmodo, hominids, hominins, human origins, humans, intelligence, macaque monkeys, macaques, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, monkeys, primates, rocks, Science Advances, Thailand, The Hill, tools}

Monkey-Made “Tools” Cast Doubt on High Intelligence in Early Hominids

_{Casey Luskin
March 14, 2023

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Macaque monkeys from Lobi Bay, Thailand, have been observed “unintentionally” producing stone tools. Read More ›