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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 26, 2022

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Ardipithecus, Associated Press, Australopithecines, Australopithecus, Australopithecus anamensis, balance, Bernard Wood, bipedalism, fossil record, Fossils and Human Evolution (series), human evolution, human origins, humans, inner ear canals, Leslie Aiello, Lucy, lumpers, National Geographic, paleontology, splitters, teeth}

Australopithecines and Retroactive Confessions of Ignorance

_{Casey Luskin
October 26, 2022

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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If a few teeth of intermediate size and shape make “the most complete chain of human evolution,” then the evidence for human evolution must be quite modest. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 24, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, apes, Charles Darwin, fossil record, Fossils and Human Evolution (series), gradualism, Harvard University, Henry Gee, hominids, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, humans, jaws, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, paleoanthropology, Richard Lewontin, Ronald Wetherington, skulls, Southern Methodist University, Stephen Jay Gould, Texas State Board of Education, textbooks}

Do Fossils Demonstrate Human Evolution? Let’s Consider the Technical Literature

_{Casey Luskin
October 24, 2022

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Far from “a nice clean example” of “gradualistic evolutionary change” that has “no gaps,” the fossil record shows a dramatic discontinuity. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 3, 2022

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, data, fossils, Germany, Günter Bechly, hominins, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, humans, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Neanderthal DNA, Neanderthals, Nobel Prize, paleontologists, paleontology, Politics, Svante Pääbo}

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

_{David Klinghoffer
October 3, 2022

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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These are welcome and candid observations, refuting notions that human origins is a fully objective area of research. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 20, 2022

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, bioRxiv, co-evolution, convergence, Current Biology, DNA, Duke University, evolution, ferns, Florida Museum of Natural History, Foresight (book), gene flow, heredity, horizontal gene transfer, human evolution, intelligent design, introgression, Neanderthals, North Carolina State University, University of Tübingen}

Gene Sharing Is More Widespread than Thought, with Implications for Darwinism

_{David Coppedge
September 20, 2022

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Evidence is growing that organisms share existing genetic information horizontally, not just vertically. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 11, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", ADHD, competition, depression, education, evolution, heart disease, human agency, human evolution, lizards, moths, natural selection, poverty, undirected process, United Kingdom, University of East Anglia}

“Human Evolution” Is a Misnomer

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 11, 2022

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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A new study claims that “natural selection” is making society more unequal because it is favoring those with poorer education and lower earnings. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 31, 2022

Categories
Biology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, ad hominem, Australopithecines, Australopithecus afarensis, bipedality, Crete, Dave Farina, evolution, fossils, geologists, Graecopithecus, hominins, Homo sapiens, human evolution, intelligent design, John Hawks, Little Foot, Lucy, Miocene apes, Neanderthals, paleontologists, Professor Dave, Science Uprising, slander, Trachilos, YouTube videos}

Examining “Professor Dave’s” Absurd Attack on Casey Luskin

_{Günter Bechly
May 31, 2022

Biology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The attack on Luskin is the most ludicrous part of the non-professor’s video, with Farina claiming at one point that Luskin perpetrated “a criminal offense.” Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 15, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Sociology
Tagged
, Big Government, blacks, causation, Charles Darwin, correlation, Darwinian racism, elitism, evolution, evolutionists, human evolution, intellectuals, racial inequality, Racism, scientific racism, white nationalists}

Does Disbelief in Human Evolution Foment Racism?

_{Richard Weikart
April 15, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Sociology

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This study does not provide an adequate explanation as to why belief in evolution would cause one to be less racist. Indeed, the logic seems backwards. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 23, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwinian racism, Darwinism, Ernst Haeckel, eugenics, evolution, evolutionary theory, human evolution, natural selection, Nazis, propaganda, scientific racism}

Darwinism in Nazi Propaganda

_{Richard Weikart
February 23, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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The authors considered human evolution especially important, because they believed it supported their vision of racial inequality. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 24, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Civic Biology, evolution, Evolution News, hair, Hall of Human Origins, Homo floresiensis, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, Human Zoos, John West, National Mall, National Museum of Natural History, Neanderthals, nose shapes, Racism, Science Uprising, Scopes Monkey Trial, skin colors, Smithsonian Institution, The Descent of Man}

Human Evolution as a “Path to Whiteness”

_{David Klinghoffer
November 24, 2021

Bioethics, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The simplified and misleading science, which is supposed to be so up-to-date as to merit showcasing on the National Mall, retains the element of traditional Darwinian racism. Read More ›

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Date
October 29, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Technology
Tagged
, brain, brain size, burial, common ancestry, evolution, Francis Collins, Homo sapiens, human evolution, humans, ID the Future, Karl Giberson, Neanderthals, neo-Darwinian theory, podcast, The Language of Science and Faith}

De-Humanizing Neanderthals: A Darwinist Dog that Won’t Hunt

_{Science and Culture
October 29, 2021

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Technology

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Growing evidence suggests Neanderthals buried their dead, employed technology, and had a brain size equal to or even slightly larger than ours. Read More ›