Tag: Neanderthals
Do Fossils Demonstrate Human Evolution? Let’s Consider the Technical Literature
Far from “a nice clean example” of “gradualistic evolutionary change” that has “no gaps,” the fossil record shows a dramatic discontinuity.
Got These Bad Habits? Blame Neanderthals!
Neanderthal man, long extinct as a separate human group, now explains why we smoke and drink to excess…
New Nobel Laureate, Svante Pääbo, on the “Politics” of Paleontology and Humans Origins
These are welcome and candid observations, refuting notions that human origins is a fully objective area of research.
Gene Sharing Is More Widespread than Thought, with Implications for Darwinism
Evidence is growing that organisms share existing genetic information horizontally, not just vertically.
Neanderthal Art, if That’s What It Is, Would Upset the Evolutionary Paradigm
Paleontologists resist the idea that early humans called Neanderthals created any artworks. Their reasoning is sometimes circular.