ChimpanzeeHooting Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date July 5, 2026 CategoriesIntelligent DesignLinguisticsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , Bantu, bonobos, Chiara De Gregorio, chimpanzees, Communications Biology, DuckDuckGo, English, French Academy, Genesis, gorillas, great apes, human speech, humans, intelligent design, isochrony, Japanese, laughter, metronome, Nature (journal), orangutans, origin of language, primates, Shigeru Miyagawa, University of Warwick, Why Agree? Why Move?, ZME Science Speech, Laughter, and Intelligent Design Denyse O’Leary July 5, 2026 Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind 5 A widely publicized thesis around ape and human laughter falls so woefully short that it forces an evaluation of other possibilities. Read More ›
Lord-Monboddo Type post Author Daniel Witt Date June 19, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionHuman ExceptionalismHuman Origins and Anthropology Tagged , Africa, apes, Charles Darwin, common ancestry, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionary theory, females, humans, Lord Monboddo, monkeys, orangutans, Racism, special creation, species, speech, tails, The Descent of Man, women Monkey Men: The Fables That Inspired Evolutionary Theory Daniel Witt June 19, 2025 Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology 7 “For, that there are men with tails,” wrote Lord Monboddo, “…is a fact so well attested that I think it cannot be doubted.” Read More ›
2560px-SmithsonianInstitutionNationalMuseumofNaturalHi Type post Author Casey Luskin Date May 27, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionHuman ExceptionalismHuman Origins and Anthropology Tagged , 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, DNA, evolution, gap divergence, genetic code, genetic difference, genomes, Gorilla gorilla, gorillas, human exceptionalism, human origins, humans, intelligent design, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), orangutans, Pan troglodytes, Pongo abelii, primates, Progressive Cactus, signage, Smithsonian Institution, Supplemental Data, University of Johannesburg Letter to the Smithsonian Casey Luskin May 27, 2025 Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology 9 Unfortunately, the 1 percent myth is promulgated as fact at, among other places, the nation's own Smithsonian Institution. Read More ›
