Category: Human Origins and Anthropology
Is Consciousness a Recent Development?
Few stopped to ask how a poet like Homer wrote the Iliad if he really was not conscious himself.
Human Origins and the Beginning of Art
There is now evidence of something like artwork among several ancient human types, not just Neanderthals. Thus, an academic controversy has arisen.
Were Neanderthals Religious?
We can’t poll long-dead Neanderthals on life, death, and the hereafter but the evidence we’ve dug up suggests they were thinking about that kind of thing.
Fossil Friday: New Evidence for the Human Nature of Neanderthals
What is at stake is not just some esoteric species problem in the ivory tower, but the very question of human nature and human uniqueness.
Science or Science Fiction? Scientists Debate
Should some Netflix documentaries be labeled science fiction? Two are currently targeted by researchers in paleontology and archeology respectively.