Category: Human Origins
Two Museums, Two Revealingly Different Ways of Communicating about Evolution
The Smithsonian makes a big, heavy-handed, tub-thumping push for Darwinian evolution, unlike New York’s American Museum of Natural History.
National Center for Science Education Whitewashes Scientific Racism
When I was a medical student, I liked to go to the medical school library in the evening and browse.
Newer Chimp Hands Are Irrelevant to Human Exceptionalism
On even the slightest pretexts, science reporting seeks to undermine the exceptional place of human beings in nature.
Listen: Has Science Shown that We’re Related to Apes?
The evidence does not, despite common claims to the contrary, indicate that humans evolved from ape-like precursors.
Chimps Can Cook! — Or Not
A study stretches its findings to argue that chimps and humans are the same.