Tag: Neanderthals | Page 3 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, amino acids, ancestors, chimpanzees, Denisovans, DNA, human origins, humans, Live Science, Neanderthals}

Reader Asks: What Is Denisovan DNA?

_{Casey Luskin
December 12, 2024

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The “Denisovans” are kind of a fictional group from which we only have a few fragmented bone specimens. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 5, 2024

Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Australian National University, feathers, Günter Bechly, human origins, Middle Palaeolithic, missing links, Neanderthals, New York University, Spain, tools}

More Discoveries Point to Neanderthal Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 5, 2024

Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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This very ancient people we know the most about can’t be the missing link that many paleontologists are looking for. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 16, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, antibiotics, burial, cave art, compassion, Darwin critics, Darwinian evolution, Down syndrome, fire, gene pool, genetic admixture, Homo sapiens, humankind, jewelry, music, Neanderthals, Science (journal), Spain}

Fossil Friday: Human Nature of Neanderthals Supported Again

_{Günter Bechly
August 16, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Extended caregiving for a strongly disabled child is a highly non-Darwinian behavior that indeeds suggests compassion on a level only found in humans. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 30, 2024

Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, archaeologists, birds, bison, Casey Luskin, cave bears, cooking, Darwinian theory, horses, human mind, human origins, Neanderthals, Portugal, The Descent of Man, wolves, ZME Science}

The Joy of (Neanderthal) Cooking

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 30, 2024

Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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The Darwinian account of the human race would be much easier to believe in good faith if scientists could point to a clearly inferior and clearly human being. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 15, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, culture, feathers, humans, intelligence, interbreeding, Neanderthals, paleoanthropologists, Phys.org, population size, Smithsonian Magazine}

Neanderthals Were a Lot More Like Humans than We Realize

_{Casey Luskin
July 15, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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There’s still much we don’t know and the evidence is sparse — due in part to the fact that Neanderthals probably had a relatively small overall population size. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 29, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, abortion, babies, Denmark, Down syndrome, Iceland, Neanderthals, Peter Singer, The Guardian, United States}

Neanderthals Cared for Down Syndrome Children

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 29, 2024

Bioethics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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It may now be that more babies with Down syndrome are killed in the womb than are born. Read More ›

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Date
June 14, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, anesthesia, antibiotics, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, cooking, evolution, Homo floresiensis, human mind, Neanderthals, Neil Thomas, Ota Benga, paleontologists, sexual selection, sterilization, teeth, tools}

Evolutionists Are Stymied by the Human Mind

_{Science & Culture
June 14, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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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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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 19, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, "Out of Africa", Africans, bioRxiv, Current Biology, Fossil Friday (series), intelligent design, introgression, Nature (journal), Nature Genetics, Neanderthal DNA, Neanderthals, Nobel laureates, non-Africans, paleontology, PNAS, population size, Science (journal), scientific community, Svante Pääbo, University of Cambridge}

Fossil Friday: Suppressed Dissent About Neanderthal DNA in Modern Humans

_{Günter Bechly
April 19, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 7, 2024

Categories
Arts
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Paleontology
Tagged
, archeology, baboons, beavers, Darwinian theory, genetic admixture, Günter Bechly, hominins, human origins, humans, Neanderthals, paleontologists, primates, rocks}

Human Origins and the Beginning of Art

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 7, 2024

Arts, Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Paleontology

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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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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 6, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Paleontology
Tagged
, burial, death, Emory University, Europe, genetic admixture, Günter Bechly, Homo sapiens, human origins, humans, invertebrates, life, life after death, Neanderthals, octopuses, Psychology Today, religion}

Were Neanderthals Religious?

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 6, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Paleontology

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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 ›