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Photo: Homo habilis remains, by Sailko, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: New Research Questions the Human Nature of Homo habilis

A consensus is scientifically worthless when it is driven by worldview bias and peer pressure rather than by an unbiased inference to the best explanation. Read More ›
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For Our Daily Bread, Thank Planetary Fine-Tuning

The existence of progenitor food crops (edible plants) on Earth was a necessary starting point for the availability of our food. Read More ›
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Neuroscientist Vows: We’ll Nail Consciousness Yet!

Anil Seth, proponent of the “hallucination” theory of consciousness, vows that researchers will find that consciousness spot or circuit in the brain. Read More ›
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Mice Can’t Do Calculus but Their Brains Can

Neuroimaging and mathematics showed that a simple Stop! signal in the brain would not allow a mouse to stop as quickly as it in fact did. Read More ›
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Human Brain Shape Has Hardly Changed

The changes in human heads were not driven by a changing brain, researchers say. It was the human face that changed. Read More ›
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Brain Size Doesn’t Determine Intelligence

Brains are not simple, so many “just common sense” theories have fallen by the wayside. Read More ›
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Human Brain Has Many More Language Connections than Chimp Brain

The researchers were interested in a nerve tract that connects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, the arcuate fasciculus. Read More ›
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No Pony in the Manure, No Consciousness in the Code

These AI champions are appealing to the Software of the Gaps, a secular cousin of the God of the Gaps. Read More ›
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Yes, the Human Brain Is the Most Complex Thing in the Universe

Our brains have actually shrunk by 10 percent over the last 40,000 years, coinciding with spectacular intellectual achievements. Read More ›
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African savanna with mountain in national wild park
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Darwinism, Storytelling, and the Futurist ET Myth

The implication is clear: the alien monolith has somehow bequeathed to him and his little tribe a sudden quantum leap in brain power. Read More ›

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