Friday, November 24, 2017

New Jebel Irhoud Date Causes Rethink of Chinese Dali Skull

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Newsweek (Yes, that Newsweek) has a story on the reexamination of the Chinese Dali cranium, in light of the revised dates for the Jebel Irho...
Thursday, November 23, 2017

Flat Earth Convention in North Carolina

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Nuts, I wish I could have gone to this. Stephanie Pappas, at Live Science writes : A conference aimed at disputing the idea that the worl...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

ID Supporter Has Wikipedia Page Erased

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Okay, this is just snotty.  Günter Bechly is a palaeontologist who was at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany.  Recent...
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Sunday, November 19, 2017

Neandertal to Modern Transition Full of Fits and Spurts

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New evidence suggests that Neandertals survived longer on the Iberian peninsula than elsewhere in Europe.   The redating of the Zafarraya N...
Monday, November 13, 2017

And, Apparently, The Stolen Bone is Only One Problem...

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The journal Nature is reporting on a scandal of sizable proportions involving a site of early human occupation in Europe.  Ewen Callaway re...
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Thursday, November 09, 2017

Ken Ham Comes to Alberta

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Young earth creationism is ubiquitous in home school curricula here in the United States.  Ken Ham is trying to make that the case in Canada...
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Thursday, October 19, 2017

Book Purchase: Adam's Quest

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I hate it when books come out that escape my attention.  Such is the case with a book titled Adam's Quest , by Tim Stafford.  In it, Sta...
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Thursday, October 12, 2017

Uh Oh

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Answers in Genesis is expanding into Canada, according the its leader, Ken Ham.  Patheos reports the following : Answers in Genesis, the ...
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Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Taboo on Incest May Go Back at Least 34K Years

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ZME Science is reporting on a study done from the site of Sunghir, in Russia that preserves “complex social structures,” indicating that, e...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

The Effect of Neandertal DNA on Modern Humans

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After the 2013 sequencing of the Neandertal DNA, Janet Kelso, of the Max Planck Institute undertook a study to see what genes present in Nea...
Friday, October 06, 2017

Creation Museum Having Positive Impact on Economy of Florence, KY

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Cincinnati.com is running a story about the impact that the Creation Museum is having on the economy of a nearby town, Florence, Kentucky.  ...
Thursday, October 05, 2017

NCSE Post Reflecting on Kitzmiller, Twelve Years Later, by Eugenie Scott

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NCSE has a guest post by Eugenie Scott, in which she remembers some of the points about Kitzmiller that might not have been public at the t...
Wednesday, October 04, 2017

Why Is Homo floresiensis Still Such a Mystery?

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Cosmos Magazine has an article by Debbie Argue, biological anthropologist from Australian National University, about Homo floresiensis and...
Tuesday, October 03, 2017

Genetic Model Identifies Paranthropus boisei as Vector For Transmission of Herpes Virus

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CNN (usual caveats) reports on a study that identifies Paranthropus boisei as the likely transmission vector of genital HSV-1.  From the st...
Saturday, September 30, 2017

Did Humans Become a Distinct Species 350, 000 Years Ago?

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The hits just keep on coming.  On the heels of the discovery in Morocco, at Jebel Irhoud, of a skull with some modern characteristics dated ...
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Q&A With Lee Berger on Human Evolution

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The Sunday Times has an interview with Lee Berger about human evolution, in advance of his new book, co-written with John Hawks, Almost Hum...
Friday, September 29, 2017

Five Peculiar Fossils

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Colin Barras of The New Scientist has a very short, very peculiar article on five hominin fossils that have been used to define new species...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

Neandertal Child Gives Clues to How They Developed

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Gizmodo is running a story about the discovery and examination of a Neandertal child, from El Sidrón Cave, in Spain, who died under mysteri...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Forbes: Ark Encounter Local Tax Scandal Not Very Scandalous

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I bit back I reported on the sale, not once but twice, of the Ark Encounter for $10 that, to all appearances, looked like a tax dodge gone b...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

New BioLogos Post on the Greek Footprints

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My article on the Trachilos footprints has gone up at BioLogos.  As always, comments welcome both places. 
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