Tag: human evolution
Lancet Hydroxychloroquine Paper Scandal Illustrates Scientific Bias, Not Only in Medicine
It’s a particularly crude example of how confirmation bias works — how else would you explain this story? — not only among lay people but among top researchers.
A Disappointing Decade for the Study of Human Evolution
Perhaps in ten years we’ll be having this conversation again — and perhaps at that time the Smithsonian Institution will give us all a more objective analysis of the evidence.
#2 of Our Top Stories of 2019: BIO-Complexity Paper Shows We Could Have Come from Two
New research confirms the possibility of a starting point of two humans instead of thousands. Ann Gauger reports.
New BIO-Complexity Paper: We Could Have Come from Two
New research confirms the possibility of a starting point of two humans instead of thousands. Ann Gauger reports.
From The Atlantic on Teaching Human Evolution, a Bit of Rare Honesty in Reporting
With permission from John West and Sarah Chaffee, here is the full text of their interview with staff writer Olga Khazan.