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Hey Octopus, How Did You Get to Be So Smart?

With the asocial brain hypothesis, researchers ask us to think beyond traditional explanations for why some animals display unexpected intelligence. Read More ›
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“SpudCell”: More Evidence that Origin of Life Requires Intelligent Design

This is most curious. SpudCell’s creators are boasting that it has “a much smaller genome” than any other known living cell. Read More ›
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Design Concepts: Interoception Is a Match for Proprioception

The take-home point is surely this: Our bodies have all sorts of ways of giving us information that do not run through our senses. Read More ›
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Photo: Stromatolithe fossil, dated to about 3.4 Ga, by Muséum de Toulouse, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Study Finds Life’s Origin “Required a Surprisingly Short Interval of Geologic Time”

It’s certainly not impossible that life was already present on Earth at 4.2 Ga. And if it were true it would have intriguing implications. Read More ›
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Research: Our Brains Float Between Two Phases, Dodging Disorder

The good news, according to recent research, is that unsteadiness is the normal state of the human brain. Read More ›
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ScienceAlert Vindicates My Findings About Human “Tails” — They Are NOT an Evolutionary Atavism

The article cites new literature that has appeared since I published my own review nine years ago. Read More ›
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Photo: Neanderthal Musuem, Germany, by Clemens Vasters, via Flickr (cropped).

Researchers: Neanderthals Invented Process to Produce Birch Tar

The tar can be used for glue, bug repellent, and killing germs. This finding tracks growing recognition of Neanderthals as intelligent. Read More ›
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What Is a Scientific “Theory”?

ScienceAlert offers a cute infographic, “Common MythConceptions: World’s most contagious falsehoods.” Read More ›

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