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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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Recognizing Providence in the History of Life Is a Hint About Our Own Lives

Any of us can point to certain pivotal events in our past that need not have occurred, but did. Read More ›
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Chatbots Might Chat, But They’re Not People

A Google engineer claims a chatbot meditates, believes itself to have a soul, has emotions like fear, and enjoys reading. Read More ›
La Pasiega Cave
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Neanderthal Art, if That’s What It Is, Would Upset the Evolutionary Paradigm

Paleontologists resist the idea that early humans called Neanderthals created any artworks. Their reasoning is sometimes circular. 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 ›
St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park
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Local “Water Rights” Law Invalidated in Florida

“Nature rights” and “animal rights” activists will keep trying. And there is no denying they are making incremental inroads. Read More ›
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The Difference Between Humans and Machines

Why do news headlines continually suggest that AI is practically human already, and soon will become fully human? Read More ›
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Hitler's religion
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Evolution and the Disturbing Consequences of Denying Free Will

How can an evolutionist such as Jerry Coyne condemn even something as manifestly heinous as the Nazi Holocaust? Read More ›
chimp
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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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Marks: Non-Computable You Won’t Achieve Immortality Through an AI Machine

Dreams of achieving immortality by having your consciousness uploaded, merging man and computer in the predicted 2045 “Singularity,” are just that — dreams. Read More ›

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