Category: Human Origins and Anthropology
Fossil Friday: Suppressed Dissent About Neanderthal DNA in Modern Humans
The case of Professor William Amos represents an interesting parallel with dissenters in the intelligent design community.
Fossil Friday: New Dating of Pleistocene Fossils Rewrites the Story of Human Evolution
The most recent data on human fossils and their dating do not really support an evolutionary narrative from ape-like ancestors to modern humans.
Fossil Friday: Stone Huts, Homo habilis, and Gutsick Gibbon
A PhD student of biological anthropology named Erika runs one of the more popular anti-creationist YouTube channels under her pseudonym Gutsick Gibbon.
War on Human Exceptionalism Turns to Tool Use
As the academic war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out — and they don’t even notice.
Burials Reveal Prehistoric Cultures Valued Children with Down Syndrome
We’ve all probably heard from one pundit or another that prehistoric humans discarded children with disabilities, just as animals might.