The explanation sounds rather contrived and, curiously, makes “evolution” sound like a theistic evolutionist’s God.
Human evolution
New sleep molecule: Apparently, the machinery of sleep is very complex
Researcher: Our discovery shows just how complex the machinery of sleep is.
Here’s a curious question: What did Neanderthals evolve from?
Some of us would like to know why, apart from professional jealousies and corruption, there is even an issue about differences between Neanderthals and the rest of us.
Another species of “hominin” still alive?
So no one has ever found one of them but we are supposed to take this seriously? Untraceable hominins. Elves, fairies, the Abominable Snowman? So this is all “science” now?
Researchers: Tool patterns show that Neanderthals were declining before Homo sapiens arrived
Researchers: “Based on this evidence, the authors suggest that older Iberian Neandertal populations disappeared, taking their tool styles with them, and were replaced by different Neandertal groups using Châtelperronian tools, likely migrating from France, and these populations were in turn replaced by Homo sapiens.”
New genealogical network dates humanity back 100,000 years
One curious find, if it holds up, is that humans were in the Americas much earlier than thought. There should now be renewed interest in finding very early tools and fossils in North America.
The New Yorker — oh, so cleverly! — misunderstands the issues around teaching of origins
Essentially, in many places, it is compulsory to teach common ancestry of humans and apes as a dogma and illegal to teach any evidence against it. The progressive vilifies the people who object on any grounds…
What? Paper on human mutation admits to “fundamentally challenging” neo-Darwinism?
But Darwinism about human beings is the bread and butter of pop science media! If that’s under threat now, what will become of, for example, evolutionary psychology?
Researchers: Some genes are unique to humans
One of the faculty advisors is Nathan Lents, known to many readers as the author of a book, Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes, claiming that humans are poorly designed. Perhaps we will soon hear that these unique, de novo genes were poorly designed.
At Mind Matters News: The future evolution of humans? Anyone’s guess
Informed opinion ranges from “Changes have largely stopped” to “We will have webbed feet,” and all experts have some science basis for their views.
Macaque study casts doubt on early human tool use
A wise approach going forward would be to find the tools first before making assumptions. Note the gratuitous slur at the end of the media release: “We are so used to trying to prove that humans are unique, that similarities with other primates are often neglected. Studying living primates today may offer crucial clues that have been overlooked in the past.” Sorry, bodkins. We don’t have to do anything to prove humans are unique. The fact that you are studying macaques for a journal while they wreck their teeth on sand and grit demonstrates that fact beyond reasonable doubt. And thoughtful people should be suspicious of UNreasonable doubt.
Palmer Study Course On Intelligent Design: Human Exceptionalism 6, Part 2
In Part 2, we consider the alleged genetic similarity between chimps and humans. Then we look at what makes humans unique in the created order.
How the embrace of Darwinism led to strange northern “origins stories”
Many northern Europeans regressed from believing in Adam and Eve to believing in stuff much closer to tribal (as opposed to human) ancestral stories.
Palmer Study Course On Intelligent Design: Human Exceptionalism 6, Part 1
From the course unit: Darwin claimed that bipedality would have been the first indication of apes evolving into humans. But after searching for evidence of increasing bipedality, the best scientists can do is claim that hominids were facultatively (optionally) bipedal. All apes today are facultatively bipedal. Is that a convincing argument that humans and apes are closely related? What other fossil evidence shows us the distinct difference between apes and humans?
Mystery: Modern humans lived in a cave in France 10,000 years earlier than thought — then vanished
At Nature: A study published on 9 February in Science Advances argues that distinctive stone tools and a lone child’s tooth were left by Homo sapiens during a short stay, some 54,000 years ago — and not by Neanderthals, who lived in the rock shelter for thousands of years before and after that time.