Tag: archaeologists
Using AI to Discover Intelligent Design
Hundreds of faint archaeological geoglyphs were found by training AI on aerial photographs of the Nazca plain in Peru.
The Joy of (Neanderthal) Cooking
The Darwinian account of the human race would be much easier to believe in good faith if scientists could point to a clearly inferior and clearly human being.
War on Human Exceptionalism Turns to Tool Use
As the academic war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out — and they don’t even notice.
Hidden, Now Revealed: Amazonia, Fitness Landscapes, and Fibonacci Numbers
The caption for one image of spiral galaxy NGC 628 notes: “The spiraling filamentary structure looks somewhat like a cross section of a nautilus shell.”
Scientists Are Skeptical that Intelligence in Homo naledi “Erases Human Exceptionalism”
Berger et al.’s claims about the species have been disputed and their idea that it lived 2-3 million years ago was exaggerated by a factor of 10.