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The significance of the new East Asian fossil human Penghu 1
The significance of the new East Asian fossil human Penghu 1A new early human fossil has been reported, recovered from the seabed near Taiwan. We are calling it Penghu 1. Simply put, it is the lower...
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Tales of the Ex-Apes
Tales of the Ex-ApesJonathan Marks' new book is called "Tales of the Ex-Apes: How We Think about Human Evolution"I've got to tell you that when I first saw the title of this book, the letters played in...
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Micro-Evolution In Greenland: Inuit Diet, Weight, and StatureThere is a new paper in Science linking genetic variation in people living in Greenland with long term selection for managing a...
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How Dogs Won The World
How Dogs Won The WorldYears ago I proposed a theory (not anywhere in print, just in seminars and talks) that went roughly like this. Humans hunt. Dogs hunt. Prey animals get hunted. Each species (or...
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The Great Human Race: How to survive
The Great Human Race: How to surviveThe Great Human Race is a new production of National Geographic, in three parts. I recently viewed the first episode, "Dawn" which comes with this description:All...
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Why I would believe in God if I wasn't an atheist.
Why I would believe in God if I wasn't an atheist.I have often made the argument that religiosity, a personal belief in god, spirits, the supernatural, etc., would emerge in human societies on its own...
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Venomous: How the Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry
Venomous: How the Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered BiochemistryYou can read this book review, or you can just go HERE and listen to our interview with author Christie Wilcox. I promise you in...
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Darwin's Unfinished Symphony
Darwin's Unfinished SymphonyDarwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind is a new book on cultural evolution in humans from a biological perspective. This is an interesting book and a...
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Odd Ancient South African Human "Ancestor" Is Young
Odd Ancient South African Human "Ancestor" Is YoungYou've heard of Homo naledi, the strange "human ancestor" (really, a cousin) found a while back in South Africa. There were many skeletal remains in a...
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The Oldest Human Bones, Jebel Irhoud, Morocco
The Oldest Human Bones, Jebel Irhoud, MoroccoYou've heard to story. I'm here to give you a little context. A pretty typical early handaxe, made by a Homo erectus. This was a big flake made from a...
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