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capuchin monkey
Photo credit: Tiago Falótico, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

War on Human Exceptionalism Turns to Tool Use

As the academic war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out — and they don’t even notice. Read More ›
cow
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Animal-Rights Philosopher, Published by Oxford University Press: “Let Animals Vote!”

If you want to see what is going so badly wrong in society, read the professional and intellectual journals. Read More ›
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Photo: <I>Ashaninkacebus</I> molar, after Fig. S4 Marivaux et al. 2023, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Did Monkeys Raft Four Times Across the Atlantic?

Time is not the hero of the plot when actual improbabilities and probabilistic resources are ignored or glossed over with fancy storytelling. Read More ›
Harvard Business School
Photo: Harvard Business School, by Rexxon00, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is There a Boom in Research Dishonesty?

Or do some academics just feel sure they won’t get caught? Or that, if they do, it somehow doesn’t matter? Read More ›
Ngarai_Sianok_sumatran_monkey
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 ›
capuchin monkey
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 ›
Darwinius
Photo: Darwinius marsillae, Franzen et al. 2009, via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Fossil Friday: Darwinius, or How Wishful Thinking Makes a Missing Link

The media campaign lead to headlines that were not content with calling the fossil a missing link but simply “THE link” or “the eighth wonder of the world.” Read More ›
dolphins
Photo: Dolphins, by Gregory “Slobirdr” Smith [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Brain Size Doesn’t Determine Intelligence

Brains are not simple, so many “just common sense” theories have fallen by the wayside. Read More ›
Rafting monkey
Photo: Rafting monkey, by Jdlrobson, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Return of the Rafting Monkeys: Why Biogeography Is No Friend of Common Descent

Evolutionists have to propose, for instance, that Old World monkeys rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to South America on a natural raft. Read More ›
chimp
Photo credit: Daniel Hansen via Unsplash.

Monkey Bias: New Science Uprising Episode Out Now!

Properly considered, we are told, human beings are just a species of chimpanzee anyway. Read More ›

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