Grooming_de_Zoé Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date February 19, 2025 CategoriesHuman ExceptionalismHuman Origins and AnthropologyNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , animal behavior, apes, awareness, bonobos, cats, Dogs, humans, Johns Hopkins University, Neurologica, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, puppy, Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine, Steven Novella, theory of mind, ZME Science As a Cudgel Against Human Exceptionalism, Researchers Push for Bonobo “Theory of Mind” Denyse O’Leary February 19, 2025 Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind 6 Is it true that “recognizing when someone else lacks information” has been thought to be a distinctly human trait? Read More ›
Homo_sapiens_neanderthalensis-Jäger Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date July 30, 2024 CategoriesArchaeologyHuman Origins and AnthropologyNeuroscience & 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 5 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 ›
Venus_Flytrap_showing_trigger_hairs Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date October 1, 2023 CategoriesBotanyLife SciencesMathematicsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , cognition, Darwinism, EMBO Reports, emotions, infection, intelligence, panpsychism, random mutations, spirituality, Tel Aviv University, teleology, Third Way of Evolution, University of Heidelberg, ZME Science Are Plants Cognitive, Intelligent Beings? Denyse O’Leary October 1, 2023 Botany, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind 5 Some plant biologists want to see them that way; others continue to insist on a Darwinian view. Read More ›