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The Human Mind Has No History

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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Photo: Hominin tibia KNM-ER 741, after Fig. 1 in Pobiner et al. 2023, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Another Prediction Vindicated

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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Photo credit: Sakurai Midori, CC BY-SA 2.1 JP <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.1/jp/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Macaque monkeys from Lobi Bay, Thailand, have been observed “unintentionally” producing stone tools. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Tiago Falótico, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Monkeys, Not Humans, Likely Made Ancient Brazilian Tools

The stone objects, dated from 50,000 years ago, look like the ones made by capuchin monkeys today. Read More ›
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Debunking “Professor Dave’s” Hit Piece Against Stephen Meyer

This YouTube video runs to about an hour and a quarter, so I will be answering him once again in a series, minute by minute. Read More ›
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Image: An artist imagines Homo erectus pekinensis, by Cicero Moraes [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Big Bang Origin of Homo

This unbridged gap between the ape-like australopithecines and the abruptly appearing human-like members of our genus challenges evolutionary accounts. Read More ›
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Photo: Foot of Homo naledi, by Lee Roger Berger research team [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Human Fossil Record Lacks Intermediaries

The news media might be heavily biased toward evolution, but at least it is predictable. Read More ›
Ardipithecus ramidus
Photo: Ardipithecus ramidus, by Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Standard Story of Human Evolution: A Critical Look

Whatever Ardi was, everyone agrees the fossils was initially badly crushed and needed extensive reconstruction. Read More ›
Svante Pääbo
Photo: Svante Pääbo, by Jonathunder, GFDL 1.2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html>, via Wikimedia Commons.

New Nobel Laureate, Svante Pääbo, on the “Politics” of Paleontology and Humans Origins

These are welcome and candid observations, refuting notions that human origins is a fully objective area of research. Read More ›
Sahelanthropus
Photo: Sahelanthropus, by Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Sahelanthropus, to Be or Not to Be Bipedal

On the morning of July 19, 2001, French scientist Alain Beauvilain and three Chadian colleagues discovered a fossil cranium in the dunes of the Sahara Desert. Read More ›

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