Tag: Neanderthals

Neanderthal armed with lance, their part in Homo Sapiens Anthropology and Darwinian Theory.

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 15, 2026

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Evolutionary Psychology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Amazon, archeology, Ascent of Man, astrobiology, China, Darwinian evolution, Eurasia, evolutionary psychology, forebears, genomes, glaciers, Greece, Jonathan Cheng, Matthew Phelan, Neanderthals, rainforest, Ross Andersen, Sanxingdui, Stone Age, subhumans, The Atlantic, UC Berkeley, Wall Street Journal}

Human Evolution Needs Subhumans, and Needs Them Badly

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 15, 2026

Cultural Anthropology, Evolutionary Psychology, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Excavation of Neanderthal and other sites is leveling even further the fabled Ascent of Man. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 23, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, archeology, brain development, burial sites, cave walls, childhood development, cognitive functioning, culture, DNA, evolution, fossils, Friedrich Alexander University, genes, genetics, genome, human mind, human origins, Indiana University Bloomington, intelligence, Kyoto University, language, modern humans, Neanderthals, Nurnberg, researchers, Scientific American, Tom Schoenemann}

Get Smart: Neanderthals Progress from Brute to Beaut

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 23, 2026

Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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We must be ready to ask some questions about many of the evolution stories we have taken for granted. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 6, 2026

Categories
Paleontology
Tagged
, development, fetal growth, Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany, growth, human forms, infants, Lower Bavaria, modern humans, Neanderthals, perinates, pregnancy, Royal Society Open Science, Sesselfelsgrotte cave, Thorsten Uthmeier}

Paper: Neanderthal Babies Developed Like Modern Humans

_{Casey Luskin
July 6, 2026

Paleontology

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Don’t miss the words of Professor Uthmeier: “both human forms.” What he’s saying is that both Neanderthals and modern humans were “human forms.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 29, 2026

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, archaeologists, artifacts, backpacking, cosmos, Darwinian evolution, dentistry, elephants, fossils, geodes, geological features, Griffith University, hand stencil, Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, human genome, human mind, human origins, Indonesia, Middle Pleistocene, Moon, Neanderthals, PNAS, religion, Smithsonian Magazine, symbolic thinking, technology, timeline, tools}

It Was Technology, Not the Human Mind, that Advanced

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 29, 2026

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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At one time, we were encouraged to interpret ancient humans as a long, slow, Darwinian ascent of man. But maybe that didn’t really happen. Read More ›

group of neanderthal cavemen hunting a mammoth, stone age humans

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 27, 2026

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alps, anthropology, Ars Technica, Boston University, brain, cannibalism, dentistry, Hebrew University, human origins, humans, Jerusalem, Kiona N. Smith, Levant, Live Science, Neanderthals, Owen Jarus, paleontology, Patrick McNamara, shamanism, Sophie Berdugo, teeth, The Emergence of Religion in Human Evolution, Tinshemet Cave, toolkits, Villaescusa Fernández, writing}

Let’s Catch Up with the Neanderthals!

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 27, 2026

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Remember the famous Neanderthal brain that was supposed to be inferior to the modern one, rendering them the big, dumb brutes of legend? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 17, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Africa, bioRxiv, Broad Institute, David Reich, Denisovans, DNA, DNA segments, Europe, geneticists, genetics, Germany, Gran Dolina, Harvard University Press, Homo antecessor, Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, humans, hybrids, interbreeding, Levallois tools, Michael Marshall, Middle East, mitochondrial DNA, Morocco, Neanderthals, New Scientist, ochre, Spain, stone tools, Y chromosome}

Harvard Geneticist Proposes Neanderthals Are Descended from Humans

_{Casey Luskin
April 17, 2026

Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Humans and Neanderthals are so similar that Neanderthals provide no evidence we are closely related to some type of primitive non-human. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
March 25, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, apes, Arne Schirmacher, ATP, Australopithecus, Bible, Cambrian Explosion, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, designer, Energy, geneticists, German, grass, Günter Bechly, humans, Institute of Genetics, Köln, living fossils, Max Planck Institute, metabolic processes, mice, naturalism, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, nucleotide differences, origin of life, Peter Pan, protein sequences, Richard Dawkins, Science and Culture Today, subway, University of Bonn, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, yeast}

Geneticist W. E. Lönnig on Human-Chimp DNA Similarity, and Much More

_{Granville Sewell
March 25, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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"The same people who admit that they are unable to create a single blade of grass tell you that they are absolutely sure they know how it came about." Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 23, 2026

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Tagged
, Acheulean stone tools, Africa, Biological Theory, brain size, brain volume, Denisovans, encephalization quotient, evolution, FOXP2, genes, Homo erectus, human origins, humans, hunting, hyoid, Indonesia, intellectual capabilities, language, laryngeal air sacs, linguistic communication, modern humans, Neanderthals, seafaring, speaking, symbols, thinking}

Paper Defends Spoken Language in Homo erectus

_{Casey Luskin
February 23, 2026

Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics

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The first thing that comes to mind in the context of intellectual capabilities is brain size. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 23, 2026

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, bear cave, Boy Scouts, Caverna Generosa, Denisovans, generosity, hierarchies, high altitudes, historical racism, human groups, hunter-gatheresr, intelligence, Italy, Journal of Quaternary Science, journeys, Lombard Prealps, motto, Neanderthals, sensitivity, settlements, stereotypes, tools}

Be Prepared: Here Are Portable Neanderthal Toolkits

_{David Klinghoffer
January 23, 2026

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Folks, that is impressive behavior. As David Coppedge says, let’s ditch the historical racism. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 18, 2025

Categories
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinian assumptions, Denisovans, Denyse O’Leary, DNA, Durham University, Europeans, genes, handprints, historical racism, Homo sapiens, human genome, human nature, intelligence, introgression, John Hawks, Michael Gross, modern humans, Neanderthal art, Neanderthals, ochre, Paul Pettitt, PIEZO1, PNAS, Racism, Siberia, skulls, Taiwan, teeth}

With Neanderthals and Denisovans, We Are All the Same Kind of Being

_{David Coppedge
November 18, 2025

Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Evolutionary anthropologists need to stop putting people groups into “less evolved” categories. It’s a form of historical racism. Read More ›