Tag: human exceptionalism
Asking Questions Demonstrates Human Exceptionalism
This human trait of question-asking begins almost as soon as we learn to talk. Young children can confound their parents with their rapid-fire questions.
With Becket Cook, David Berlinski Discusses Speech as a Problem for Darwin, and More
Dog owners know that to look into your dog’s eyes is often to see that the dog has something he wishes to say but lacks the “machinery for externalization.”
Intelligence Is Unnatural, and Why That Matters
One of the advantages we have in our study of nature is our ability to observe an entire “unpolluted” universe.
Good as Gould? Ask a Chimp
No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks?
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.