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Neanderthals Cared for Down Syndrome Children

It may now be that more babies with Down syndrome are killed in the womb than are born. Read More ›
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Evolutionists Are Stymied by the Human Mind

Media love natural histories of the mind. Advocates have proposed mental illness, chimpanzees throwing excrement, and baby slings as the accidental spark. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Suppressed Dissent About Neanderthal DNA in Modern Humans

The case of Professor William Amos represents an interesting parallel with dissenters in the intelligent design community. Read More ›
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Human Origins and the Beginning of Art

There is now evidence of something like artwork among several ancient human types, not just Neanderthals. Thus, an academic controversy has arisen. Read More ›
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Were Neanderthals Religious?

We can’t poll long-dead Neanderthals on life, death, and the hereafter but the evidence we’ve dug up suggests they were thinking about that kind of thing. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: New Evidence for the Human Nature of Neanderthals

What is at stake is not just some esoteric species problem in the ivory tower, but the very question of human nature and human uniqueness. Read More ›
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Science or Science Fiction? Scientists Debate

Should some Netflix documentaries be labeled science fiction? Two are currently targeted by researchers in paleontology and archeology respectively. Read More ›
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Were Neanderthals and Humans the Same Species?

The evidence does not demonstrate that humans evolved from some kind of humanlike yet intellectually primitive precursor.  Read More ›
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Photo: A skull from the Qafzeh Cave, by Wapondaponda, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

When Did Humans Start Burying the Dead?

Only humans understand death as the inevitable and final reality for all mortal beings no matter what we do. Read More ›
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The Human Mind Has No History

There is no good reason to assume that human intelligence evolved from mud to mind via a long slow history. Read More ›

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