Tag: Pleistocene
Fossil Friday: Saber-Toothed Tigers Originated Multiple Times
No explanations offered, but no intelligence allowed either. Maybe scientists should stop shutting their eyes and ears to what nature wants to tell them.
Fossil Friday: New Dating of Pleistocene Fossils Rewrites the Story of Human Evolution
The most recent data on human fossils and their dating do not really support an evolutionary narrative from ape-like ancestors to modern humans.
Fossil Friday: Direct Fossil Ancestors of Living Species?
Willi Hennig, the founder of phylogenetic systematics (cladistics), recognized that finding and demonstrating direct ancestors would be a very hard task.
Fossil Friday: The Supposed Oldest Cheetah Was Yet Another Fraud
Even before the publication, the Chinese scientists Deng Tao and Qiu Zhanxiang had revealed the skull to be a crude forgery.
Is Human Psychology Better Explained by Evolution or Design?
“We are survival machines,” wrote atheist biologist Richard Dawkins, “robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.”