Human Evolution:
Category: Human Evolution
It is one thing to get a thing wrong now and then. It is not terrible to occasionally use language that might be improved. But it is unacceptable to produce a documentary where the first ten or more minutes will require hours to undo in the classroom if a potential future student actually watches this third installment of the three hour tour through human evolution. Three hour tour.
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Posted by Greg Laden at 2:57 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Human Evolution
I've seen every human evolution documentary ever made, and some I know by heart, having used them in teaching. This one satisfies most of my requirements for use in a classroom setting or for general dissemination of knowledge about human evolution.
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Posted by Greg Laden at 2:34 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Atheism
I would very much like your help in picking out a tee-shirt to wear around town. Let me tell you about the town, and you'll be able to make an appropriate suggestion....
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Posted by Greg Laden at 11:00 AM • 53 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Human Evolution
He talks about his book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. The interviewer is not my favorite interviewer. A public radio interviewer should not even be asking questions about religion and creationism unless doing a story that is explicitly on fringe beliefs....
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Posted by Greg Laden at 10:04 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neurobiology
Sometimes people walk around with only half a brain, or a large portion of their brain disconnected, or simply having never developed, or an extra large brain, and we usually take little notice. But when there is a five or ten or twenty percent difference...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 1:07 PM • 39 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Human Evolution
Yes, but not necessarily because it is wrong. Some time ago researchers proposed that the modern DNA signal indicated that chimps and humans continued to interbreed long after they split in evolutionary time. A new study refutes this, and as the author states, this new...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 2:00 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Human Evolution
Did humans evolve from apes? It all depends on what you mean by "from." And "did." And "apes."
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Posted by Greg Laden at 11:10 AM • 49 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Falsehoods
Another look at falsehoods about evolution....
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Posted by Greg Laden at 11:15 AM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Falsehoods
In my initial s.php">list of Falsehoods, I included these two closely related items: Evolution has stopped for humans; and Serious scientists often entertain the question: "Has evolution stopped for humans?" I'll make the distinction between them clear eventually. For now, let's focus on the first:...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 11:55 AM • 34 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Human Evolution
Stephen Jay Gould and David Pilbeam wrote a paper in 1974 that was shown ten years later to be so totally wrong in its conclusions that it has fallen into an obscurity not usually linked to either Gould or Pilbeam. However, they were actually right...
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