Tag: Neanderthals
Adam and the Genome and Neanderthal Cave Art
As if on cue, science news today reports a remarkable discovery from Spain.
Hmm, Much of Dennis Venema’s Adam and the Genome Isn’t About Adam and the Genome
Venema seems much more interested in pursuing longstanding debates with intelligent design and with certain ID proponents.
No, Dolphins Could Not Create Our Technology
These days, it is sometimes difficult to discern where “science” ends and ideology begins.
Research on Ancient DNA Could Test Predictions of Non-Darwinian Speciation Models
Independent groups of researchers (e.g., Hössjer et al. 2016), more or less skeptical of common ancestry, have suggested the alternative model of initial heterozygotic diversity.
Neanderthals: Are They Us, or Are We Them (or Both)? Overcoming the Icons of Evolution
Who were the Neanderthals? Were they ape-like primitives with low intelligence, or were they more like us–perhaps nearly identical to modern humans in both body and mind? Biology textbooks often portray Neanderthals as unintelligent versions of modern humans. For example, this graphic from Biology: The Dynamics of Life (pg. 483, 2000 ed.) portrays Neanderthals as […]