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Human evolution

At Mind Matters News: Human brain shape hardly changed in 160,000 years

The human brain reaches 95% of adult size at six years of age. Interestingly seven years of age is commonly held to be the “age of reason.”

Posted on August 6, 2022August 6, 2022 Author News Comments(6)
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At EurekAlert: Taking your time makes a difference – Brain development differs between Neanderthals and modern humans

Differences in Humans and Neanderthals: evolution or design?

Posted on August 1, 2022 Author Caspian Comment(0)
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At Mind Matters News: Fossil scientists ask, Could a Neanderthal meditate?

How much can we rely on casts from fossil skulls when the relationship between the mind and the brain is unclear even in currently living human beings?

Posted on July 30, 2022 Author News Comment(1)
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At Mind Matters News: Why some life forms are smarter than others is still a mystery

Genetic engineering probably wouldn’t make humans smarter because, as biochemist Michael Denton notes in Miracle of Man, our brains seem to be optimally organized now. That would seem to support a design hypothesis.

Posted on July 17, 2022July 17, 2022 Author News Comment(1)
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At Mind Matters News: Our sense of smell may have declined in recent millennia but it is sharper than we think

When tested, human noses turned out be pretty sensitive -but humans also rely heavily on symbolic information to which other life forms do not have access.

Posted on July 17, 2022July 17, 2022 Author News Comment(0)
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Robert J. Marks on “machines with minds” vs. the real-life dweebs in his evolutionary programming:

A machine mind didn’t “just evolve” in this experiment; it was programmed in — even if its output was a surprise. The same is likely true of the human mind.

Posted on July 6, 2022July 6, 2022 Author News Comment(0)
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At Eurekalert: Connectivity of language areas unique in the human brain

“Neuroscientists have gained new insight into how our brain evolved into a language-ready brain. Compared to chimpanzee brains, the pattern of connections of language areas in our brain has expanded more than previously thought. “

Posted on July 5, 2022 Author Caspian Comment(1)
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Michael Egnor: Is consciousness the sort of thing that could have evolved?

Material processes cannot, for example, account for the power to grasp infinity or perfection — which are not material ideas.

Posted on June 29, 2022 Author News Comments(79)
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At Live Science: Why can’t we drink saltwater?

Why did humans — and nearly all other land animals, for that matter —evolve to drink freshwater when saltwater is so much more plentiful?

Posted on June 27, 2022 Author Caspian Comments(36)
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At Sci-News: Early Humans were Present in Southeast Britain 620,000 Years Ago

Researchers: The archaeological site of Fordwich in northeast Kent, England, reveals the presence of Acheulean hominins — possibly Homo erectus or Homo heidelbergensis — in what is now southeast Britain between 620,000 and 560,000 years ago.

Posted on June 24, 2022 Author Caspian Comments(2)
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What would Catholic philosopher Thomas Aquinas say about Adam and Eve and paleontology?

Thomas Aquinas (1225– 1274) was instrumental in organizing Christian theology along Aristotelian lines. Here, a priest who is familiar with his thought, offers some comments.

Posted on June 12, 2022 Author News Comments(12)
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At Mind Matters News: Transhumanism: Human, computer, animal — all just a choice now…

Wesley Smith talks with Dr. Elaina George about the new secular religion of Transhumanism or H+ — immortality without tears for atheists — if it’s even possible.

Posted on June 12, 2022 Author News Comment(1)
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Jonathan Wells asks, Is the human shoulder badly designed?

Personal misfortune taught him otherwise.

Posted on May 18, 2022May 18, 2022 Author News Comments(4)
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Denton’s prior fitness argument: Everything seems to have come together to produce humans

But didn’t Freeman Dyson (1923–2020) say, “The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.” The idea isn’t new; there’s just much more evidence for it.

Posted on May 14, 2022 Author News Comments(14)
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Claim: Human cognitive abilities a consequence of walking upright

The explanation sounds rather contrived and, curiously, makes “evolution” sound like a theistic evolutionist’s God.

Posted on May 10, 2022 Author News Comments(5)

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