Sunday, July 28, 2019

New Poll From Gallup on Human Origins

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Gallup has released a new poll on what people think about human evolution .  Here is their takeaway blurb: Forty percent of U.S. adults a...
Saturday, July 27, 2019

Chris Stringer: Meet the Relatives

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Chris Stringer has a post in the Financial Times titled Meet the Relatives .  It is sort of a whirlwind tour through the evolution of the ge...
Friday, July 26, 2019

Earliest Art Made By Humans?

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Artnet News has a post on a discovery in Henan Province, China that purports to be the oldest indications of consciously-created art.  From ...
Tuesday, July 09, 2019

DNA Proteins Revealing Information About Human Evolution

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Since the advent of population genetics and modern techniques to examine DNA, research has focused on, first, Mitochondrial DNA and then nuc...
Monday, July 08, 2019

Patterns in the Fossil Record

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Science Daily has a post on research about patterns in the fossil record that comes out of the Santa Fe Institute.  They write: Throughou...
Sunday, June 30, 2019

Neandertals Occupying Open-Air Site in Israel

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There is evidence of Neandertal occupation at an open-air site in northern Israel called Ein Qashish.  From the researchers: Whereas many ...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

The Ancient History of Neanderthals in Europe

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The Max Planck Society has a post in PhysOrg, a highly-regarded science site, on the history of Neandertals (they have used the old spellin...
Friday, June 28, 2019

Paul Braterman: Why Historical Sciences Are More Useful Than "Rule-Seeking" Sciences

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Paul Braterman has a post that comes in response to what can only be called a Usenet forum on young earth creationism.  His post outlines t...
Friday, June 07, 2019

Ark Encounter Suffers Serious Rain Damage, Insurance Refuses to Pay

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The Ark Encounter suffered serious rain damage...let that one sink in for a second...and the insurance company is refusing to pay out to cov...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

Bill Nye, the Non-Science Guy

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Alex Berezow, of the American Council on Science and Health, writes that Bill Nye is a terrible spokesman for science .  He writes: It was ...
Friday, May 17, 2019

William Reville: Science Should Not Antagonize Religion

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William Reville, writing for the Irish Times , argues that the strategy that many of the outspoken atheists have of trying to promote scienc...
Friday, May 10, 2019

Bat-Winged Dinosaurs in the Jurassic

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“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.” —Dr. Seuss A new discovery in China (natch) indicates that, durin...
Tuesday, May 07, 2019

Large Denisovan Fossil Discovered

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Nature News is reporting on a jaw fragment that has been discovered on the Tibetan Plateau that is close to 160,000 years old. From the stor...
Monday, May 06, 2019

Let the Fireworks Begin

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Pat Robertson didn't exactly call Ken Ham an idiot, but he came close. And Ken Ham didn't exactly call Pat Robertson un-Christian, ...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

New Ark Encounter Film Out

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Film Threat has a review of a new film out about the Ark Encounter, the Ken Ham-inspired theme park in Petersburg, Kentucky.  The film, by ...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

On the Heels of the Discovery of Homo luzonensis...

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A new study from the journal Cell suggests that there were multiple migrations of individuals into Southeast Asia with the Denisovan genome....
Monday, April 15, 2019

New Species of Hominin Found in Phillipines

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From a story in UPI : At the completion of excavations on the island of Luzon, scientists had unearthed several teeth, part of a thigh bon...
Monday, April 01, 2019

Neandertal Penny Whistle Discovered

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Researchers working at the site of Vindija, in Croatia, have discovered what looks, to all appearances, like a penny whistle.  The find is l...
Monday, March 25, 2019

Genetic Data Suggests That Early Modern Humans Migrated From South to East Africa

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Science Daily is running a story that supports the idea that modern humans migrated from South to East Africa before exiting the continent....
Thursday, March 07, 2019

More Information From Denisova

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Nature News is reporting about some more evidence from Denisova, following up on the bombshell news last year that bones discovered there b...