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Amazonia Supported a Cosmopolitan Civilization

September 2, 2008

Today’s naked, spear-hunting tribes in the jungles of the Amazon live in the shadow of a complex society that once thrived there. By increasing their scope from the single site to the wider region, archaeologists from Florida and Brazil have discovered a cosmopolitan culture that left large earthworks and evidence of complex urban societies. Their […]

Early Man

Neanderthals Win Toolmaking Olympics

August 26, 2008

Scientists have taken another step toward debunking the myth of the “stupid Neanderthals” who went extinct when competing with their supposedly advanced neighbors, the “modern humans.” Science Daily is one of several news sites reporting a study on toolmaking by the two groups of humans, that concluded that “stone tool technologies developed by our species, […]

Early Man

Early Art Confounds Evolutionists

August 16, 2008

The artwork on the walls of Chauvet Cave in France is too good to have been made by early modern humans. “Chauvet should be removed from assessments of early modern humans in Europe,” said UK archaeologist Robin Dennell. “Including it leads to a gross distortion of their cognitive abilities.” Other experts who dated the artwork […]

Dinosaurs

Human Skeletons Found in Sahara

August 14, 2008

They went looking for dinosaur bones, and found human skeletons instead. That’s what is being reported by National Geographic and the Los Angeles Times. A barren wasteland in the Sahara, covered with sand, has turned out to be a treasure trove of evidence of human occupation. The area appears to have been a lakeside paradise […]

Fossils

How Much Is Known About Climate History?

August 1, 2008

Scientific papers on earth history can seem very erudite and confident, filled with jargon and named periods that appear carved in stone. Every once in awhile, though, a surprise discovery raises questions about how sound their timelines and models really are. Get a load of this opening to a review by Jacqueline Flückiger,1 an environmental […]

Dinosaurs

Dinosaur Soft Tissue: Fooled by Slime?

July 30, 2008

The claim made in 2005 that soft tissues in dinosaur bone had been discovered (see 03/24/2005) has been challenged by new research published in PLoS One.1 Maybe the pliable stuff is just slime. Thomas Kaye from the Burke Museum of Natural History in Seattle with two colleagues were actually hoping to find more […]

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs Placed in Big Tree

July 26, 2008

Dinosaurs didn’t take advantage of the big rise in diversity at the end of the Cretaceous, say British researchers. Their big “supertree” of dinosaur evolution shows that the dinosaurs were just evolving at a regular speed while flowering plants, social insects, birds and mammals were evolving like crazy. Science Daily and New Scientist […]

Early Man

The Cro-Magnon Were Europeans

July 16, 2008

There’s no genetic difference between Cro-Magnon Man and modern Europeans, a genetic study reported by Science Daily. Researchers took extra care to avoid contamination of bones found in southern Italy, they said. They claimed Cro-Magnon people were able to maintain genealogical continuity for 28,000 years, remaining distinct from Neanderthals, whom they said lived in Europe […]

Fossils

Another Evolutionary Statistic Is Wrong

July 15, 2008

Marine invertebrate diversity has not increased dramatically over time, contrary to conventional wisdom. That’s the conclusion of a team of 35 researchers who spent a decade analyzing seashell fossils from around the world. Science Daily reported the story July 7. A week later, on July 14, Science Daily reported a follow-up story, entitled, […]

Birds

Feather Fossil Fallacy?

July 9, 2008

Imprints of melanocytes have been found in fossil feathers. What does this mean? The popular science news reports, like Science Daily, Live Science, PhysOrg and the BBC News seem convinced it can tell us something about how birds evolved from dinosaurs. Understanding what was discovered requires sifting through claims that go far beyond the evidence. […]

Fossils

Not Another Tetrapod Missing Link

June 25, 2008

Fossils don’t contain light bulbs, but almost every time a new one is found, scientists claim it sheds light on evolution. The BBC News kept that tradition going with this line, “Scientists say a fossil of a four-legged fish sheds new light on the process of evolution.” What, exactly, was found? Whatever Ventastega curonica was, […]

Dinosaurs

Big Dino Site Found in Utah

June 17, 2008

A big dinosaur fossil quarry has been found in Utah near Hanksville, reported the Associated Press (see copy on PhysOrg). The Bureau of Land Management says it may be comparable to the Dinosaur National Monument site and other well-known quarries in the region. Apparently feeling a need to appeal to the MTV generation, a National […]

Early Man

Will Evolutionary Psychology Be the First Darwinian Theory to Go?

June 6, 2008

Evolutionary psychologists are not getting much respect these days. Some evolutionists, like Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, criticized them for years. Now, a new book came out against them and Science gave it a good review.1 To turn a Darwinian phrase, reviewer Johan J. Bolhuis said that the field of evolutionary psychology is undergoing […]

Dumb Ideas

Lamarckism Still Shuffles Around

June 1, 2008

Examine the following quotation and see if it sounds like what Darwin or Lamarck would say: Somewhere in the murky past, between four and seven million years ago, a hungry common ancestor of today’s primates, including humans, did something novel. While temporarily standing on its rear feet to reach a piece of fruit, this protohominid […]

Fossils

Evolution Out of Sync

May 30, 2008

Evolutionary theory explains everything but the kitchen sink, but what if things get out of sync? According to Darwin’s tree of life, things happen in a particular order. The same complex trait should not emerge on separate branches independently. Findings contrary to the tree pattern could sink the theory – or at least give some […]

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