Tag: Homo sapiens
UN Pushes Nature Rights
The United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights stated in a recent speech at Oxford University that nature rights are equivalent to human rights.
Slow-Witted? Neanderthals Invented Their Own Tech — Didn’t Copy
Neanderthals cannot be the missing link that many paleontologists are looking for. But if the human mind has no history, there is no missing link.
Science Writing Tries to Smash Human Exceptionalism
Stone tool use among animals versus the Stone Age provides a useful illustration of the tendency.
Why Should a Baby Live?
My title is adapted from a 2012 article by two philosophers, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva.
Fossil Friday: Human Nature of Neanderthals Supported Again
Extended caregiving for a strongly disabled child is a highly non-Darwinian behavior that indeeds suggests compassion on a level only found in humans.