Category: Human evolution
Human evolution: Simmering conflict between genetic and paleontology data erupts
| July 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
One paleontologist calls the geneticists’ view “irresponsible” and another invokes the devil, when advising us to “sup with a long spoon” when dealing with them. more
New York Times report on human evolution controversy vindicates book Science and Human Origins
| July 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
Human-Neanderthal breeding? “Fossil evidence says no. Genetic evidence appears to say yes” more
Science journalist: Don’t let the rubes know about human evolution controversies
| July 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
His article should be saved as a classic in entirely unfounded elitism. more
Surely the flap between Zimmer and Luskin is really about common ancestry? Not just disputed chromosome 2 …
| July 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Genomics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
Luskin and Zimmer should discuss common ancestry directly. What would either side consider good evidence? more
Swingin’ from the chandeliers retro: Rick Sternberg on human-chimp genome similarity
| July 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Genomics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
In fairness, barroom bores are preferable to lecture room bores because the most they can ruin is a quiet moment. more
Maybe Carl Zimmer is free to read Science and Human Origins now …
| July 23, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
We may have answered his question about the origin of claims that human chromosome 2 is degenerate. more
Adam ‘n Eve: Paul McBride responds to Ann Gauger
| July 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design |
Wherever humans are the designers, there is a risk of irrelevant or irrational considerations becoming common and normal, considered as necessities. more
A dead guy’s life as a chimp. No, really, this is classic literature
| July 20, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
Did anyone happen to notice that two paradigms underlying human evolution have crumbled? Meanwhile, here’s life as a chimp. Hat tip: Pos-Darwinista more
Two paradigms underlying human evolution have crumbled?
| July 20, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
” the expected signatures of adaptations to new environments are surprisingly lacking at the genomic level.” more
Oh, and in other news, science writer Carl Zimmer noviews Science and Human Origins
| July 20, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Human evolution, Intelligent Design |
Darwinists can get away with that in the present state of culture. They need only pretend to know what they are talking about. They don’t really have to defend it. more
Neanderthals used medicine; got less stupid every day
| July 19, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
“It’s very surprising that the plants we were able to securely identify were those with a bitter taste and no nutritional qualities – but known medicinal properties,” more
Ancient cave paintings (32 mya) “simply electric”
| July 17, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
Yes, the horses, especially the horses. more
Great site for new Sediba discovery
| July 17, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
here Hat tip: Pos-Darwinista more
Late Stone Age grave features teeth from dozens of dogs arranged in pattern
| July 12, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
Were the teeth, perhaps, a hall of memories of favourite dogs? more
More from Ann Gauger on why humans didn’t happen the way Darwin said
| July 9, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
“You don’t have to take my word for it. In 2007, Durrett and Schmidt estimated in the journal Genetics that for a single mutation to occur in a nucleotide-binding site and be fixed in a primate lineage would require a waiting time of six million years. ” more
A veil is drawn over the Adam and Eve war?
| July 7, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
Hey, if it is as simple as Darwin’s Christians claim … Why ARE the apes still shrieking in the trees? more
Some of Ann Gauger’s critics claim she says that humans are four million years old
| July 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution |
“I never said that and the data do not show that.” more
Did human ancestors eat bark?
| July 4, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
But how do we know the hominins were eating it for food? Bark can have medicinal, sedative, or analgesic qualities. more
Human evolution: Current pottery theory in smithereens. Pottery much older than (dated) agriculture
| June 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
… pieces of a large bowl found in Jiangxi Province are 20,000 years old. Pottery had been theorized to get started only 10,000 years ago, when agriculture prevailed. The theory was, … more
Handy guide to differences between humans and apes
| June 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
Here is a handy guide to differences between and among humans and primate apes. more
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