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Researchers: Declining Neanderthal fertility caused extinction, not violence

Demographic decline is insidious because its pace appears slow in human terms (generations) but eventually, a freefall can occur. For example, young Neanderthals would eventually find themselves joining other groups because there aren’t enough other Neanderthals around. And the rest is… 23 and me. Read More ›

Knuckle study might shed light on whether ancient humans walked or swung from trees

They might be onto something. After all, they are looking at a restricted type of evidence that may be abundant enough to enable a reasonable decision about some fossils. A far cry from the hype we so often hear. Read More ›

Researchers: Chimps eating shellfish help explain human evolution

If a minor note about chimpanzee behavior needs to be inflated into a claim about human evolution, that’s most likely because not much is known about human evolution and what is known does not fit the grand narrative. Talk about a fishing expedition! Read More ›

New Scientist has seen signs of a mirror universe touching our own

Broussard is about to do tests to find out if it is true. That’s fun, of course, but in reality, no one can prove it false and it will therefore always be real when cosmologists need it. It would be still more fun to see Sabine Hossenfelder tackle this one. Read More ›

Science journalist confronts evolutionary theorist with hard questions at his book talk

es, in one phrase, Mazur, author of Darwin Overthrown: Hello Mechanobiology, captures the problem: “he doesn’t define it.” Much Darwinism today survives on the fumes of “evolution” in general. Read More ›

Astrophysicist: Nothingness” may be the answer to our cosmic questions; Rob Sheldon responds

Rob Sheldon: This article illustrates the reason why the scientific method is going extinct, not just in Darwin's circular logic, but also in physics and cosmology. Read More ›

Why must fine-tuning be classed as a problem, not just a fact?

A good deal of effort goes into explaining away the fine-tuning of our universe and our Earth for life. But note the intellectually disastrous theses that are casually accepted as alternatives. What if we just accepted it? The way we accept the significance of 1/137. Read More ›