Category: Human Origins
Beyond Adaptation: The Human Brain Is Something New
Our brains have vastly more ability than is needed for survival, most notably the capacity for language and abstract thought.
On Rosh Hashanah, a Note on Origins and Evidence
The origin and nature of man should be important to any thoughtful human being, of any religion or none.
Dabar Postscript
A participant did not like that I called his origins model “idiosyncratic,” or that I characterized the reaction to it as “cautious.” Oh well.
Adventures in New Places — A Conference on Human Origins
I asked fairly innocuous questions, realizing that I was being allowed to participate as long as I didn’t cause strife.
Human Exceptionalism — An Evolutionary Dilemma
Following Darwin, with an assist from Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, Ken Miller proposes that human reason, consciousness, etc. are exaptations, or “spandrels.”