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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 3, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstraction, animals, archaeologists, chimpanzees, crows, dolphins, hands, Harvard University, life forms, monkeys, octopuses, Oxford University, sea urchins, tools}

War on Human Exceptionalism Turns to Tool Use

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 3, 2024

Environment & Climate, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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As the academic war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out — and they don’t even notice. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 15, 2023

Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, burial, chronology, erosion, fossils, geochemistry, hominins, Homo naledi, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, human origins, hype, IFL Science, intelligence, Journal of Human Evolution, Lee Berger, media, Netflix, paleoanthropologists, Rising Star Cave, South Africa, spectroscopy, taphonomy, tools}

Journal Rejects Claims that Homo naledi Buried Dead, Made Rock Art, Used Fire

_{Casey Luskin
November 15, 2023

Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Researchers, led by Lee Berger, had claimed in a Netflix documentary that the species buried its dead, used fire, used tools, and made rock art. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abortion, Africa, Casey Luskin, consciousness, evolutionary biology, fish, fossil record, gestation, Gregory Chaitin, hominins, human intelligence, human mind, human origins, Israel, meat, mollusks, Neanderthals, pain, poetry, pseudoscience, tools}

The Human Mind Has No History

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 19, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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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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Date
April 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, assumptions, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, evidence, intelligent design, natural world, optimality, predictions, purpose, Science and Faith in Dialogue, teleology, tools}

Is a New Design-Based Paradigm of Biology Emerging?

_{Science & Culture
April 14, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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Brian Miller reports that optimality is becoming a tool of prediction in biology, with more biologists returning to the use of design-based assumptions. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, evolutionary icons, Gizmodo, hominids, hominins, human origins, humans, intelligence, macaques, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, monkeys, primates, rocks, Science Advances, The Hill, tools}

Monkey-Made “Tools” Cast Doubt on High Intelligence in Early Hominids

_{Casey Luskin
March 14, 2023

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Macaque monkeys from Lobi Bay, Thailand, have been observed “unintentionally” producing stone tools. Read More ›

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Date
January 11, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Americas, archeology, Brazil, charcoal, hominins, humans, Ice Age, Kenya, monkeys, Nature (journal), tools}

Monkeys, Not Humans, Likely Made Ancient Brazilian Tools

_{Science & Culture
January 11, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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The stone objects, dated from 50,000 years ago, look like the ones made by capuchin monkeys today. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 2, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, chemists, design hypothesis, DNA, evidence, information, intelligent designer, interactome, James Tour, macromolecules, nucleotides, Peter Tompa, proteins, Rice University, RNA, tools}

James Tour Video Series on the Origin of Life — Assembly of Cellular Components

_{Brian Miller
April 2, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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I suspect this challenge will not be widely heeded. Studying these issues will lead researchers toward a conclusion they simply are not willing to accept. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 22, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, airplanes, ceramics, copper, fire, Fire-Maker series, Industrial Revolution, iron, Iron Age, machines, metallurgy, metals, microscopes, smelting, telescopes, tools, World War II}

For Mankind, the Leap from Copper to Iron Was a Landmark Advance

_{Michael Denton
July 22, 2020

Chemistry, Intelligent Design

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The importance of metals, particularly iron, and the importance of the discovery of metallurgy can hardly be exaggerated. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
January 24, 2019

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", Ajit Varki, Albert Einstein, animals, bread, chimpanzees, creativity, Darwinian evolution, David Premack, fire, human origins, humans, intelligence, Internet, iPhone, John West, Neanderthals, Noam Chomsky, Peaceful Science, S. Joshua Swamidass, Thomas Nagel, tools, University of Pennsylvania}

A Positive, Useful Discussion of Human Exceptionalism … On the Internet? Yes!

_{Ann Gauger
January 24, 2019

Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics

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Not all humans can be concert pianists. Some humans can’t speak or get out of a wheelchair or remember their daughter’s name anymore. Here we enter into moral and ethical issues. Read More ›

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Date
November 12, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Australia, birds, cats, chimpanzees, crocodiles, Current Biology, Darwinian evolution, Field Museum of Natural History, Flight, genome, innovation, intelligent design, mice, Royal Society Open Science, tools}

News for the Birds — Smart, Gymnastic, Flute-Playing, Surviving

_{Science & Culture
November 12, 2018

Intelligent Design

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Is it reasonable that two populations would independently hit on an adaptation by chance? Read More ›