Category: Human Origins
Peer Review Rejects Claims that Homo naledi Buried Dead, Used Fire, and Scrawled on Cave Wall
I could not find a single reviewer who accepted the claims of the papers. They were harshly critical of claims of intentional burial of the skeletons.
Evidence of Woodworking Extends High Human Intelligence Far Back into the Mid-Pleistocene
This rare find shows that some of the very human-like forms in the fossil record were actually much smarter than we thought.
Those Puzzling Puritans and the Image of God
Surprisingly, it was Puritans who passed the first law ever, anywhere in the world, against domestic violence.
New Article in Science Boosts Plausibility of a Primordial Pair
These new developments underscore the fact that there is no room for dogmatism about claims concerning the smallest population size of humans.
Darwin and the Smithsonian’s Racist Brain Collection
The motivation for the brain collection was to document how some people were supposedly lower on the evolutionary ladder than others.