Category: Human Origins
Are Apes Entering the Stone Age?
Reporting on research from the University of Haifa, New Scientist advises, “Bonobos use a range of tools like stone-age humans.”
This Christmas, Intelligently Design Your Gift List with Resources from the Center for Science & Culture!
In our current culture, it’s more important than ever to understand how modern scientific advances interact with faith.
Smithsonian’s Traveling Human Origins Exhibit Overstates the Case for Human Evolution
The exhibit may be headed to a public library near you.
What to Feel Thankful for on Thanksgiving? How About a Universe Minutely Tailored for You
That’s the thesis advanced by biologist Michael Denton in the Discovery Institute documentary Privileged Species. Share it with friends and family!
Honoring the 41st Anniversary of the Discovery of “Lucy,” Google Offers a Misleading Doodle
As a monument to human evolution, clarifying the mystery of our origins, Lucy falls short.
We Share Many Genes with Lettuce, but that Doesn’t Make Us Part Salad
It is fashionable these days to denigrate human beings as mere apes.
Can Animals Be Taught Concepts?
With enough cheese snacks on hand, I can train my Bichon Frise to bark when I point to “4” rather than “3” or “5” after I ask “What is 2 + 2?”
“Scientific Literacy” with Grandmother Fish?
There are many problems here — and all of them prevent students from truly learning science.
The Fundamental Difference Between Humans and Nonhuman Animals
We are more different from apes than apes are from viruses.
Are Humans Apes?
Jonathan Marks and Jerry Coyne would agree that we belong to the same clade as apes do.