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• Neanderthal Hunting Strategy: Shoot First, Ask Questions Later

  For hundreds of thousands of years, Neanderthals were the top predator in Europe. They could hunt and kill anything they wanted to eat. From small birds of... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Homo Naledi May Be 1 Million Years Younger Than Expected

  In 2015 a new member of the human family was discovered. It was called naledi and might be one of the most significant discoveries ever. Their anatomy indicate... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Creationists Invent Controversy Over Neanderthal Intelligence

  

  For thousands of years Europe was dominated by the Neanderthals. This enigmatic species was similar to modern humans in many ways, to the point we could even... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Introducing the Filthy Monkey-pedia

  Filthy monkey men is a site I'm very happy with. It provides a great way to talk about the latest discoveries in human evolution; and chat with the regulars... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Oldest Hobbit Fossils Found; but Who Did They Evolve From?

  Homo floresiensis is a small, archaic-looking member of the human family that lived surprisingly recently in the island of Flores. It's perhaps the most... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Neanderthals Made Mysterious Underground Structures

  175,000 years ago the Neanderthals were up to something. In the dark depths of a French cave, 300 metres underground, they were re-arranging more than two tonne... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Man Masturbates to “study” Evolution of Music

  Is their an evolutionary function to a grand piano? Our fondness for music may have evolved, or it might simply represent a happy coincidence. Perhaps it just... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• What’s the Point of the Nose?

  What makes humans unique? The nose probably isn't anyone's first answer to that question. Yet compared to the other primates (and earlier members of our... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Big Brains Drove Humans to Evolve Faster Metabolism

  Humans live an energy intensive life. We have big brains that need hundreds of calories a day to maintain. We produce big brained babies that take extra calorie... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How People Evolved Since the Romans

  Evolution often seems like something that happened in the past. Yet traits have evolved recently as well, like lactose tolerance in farming populations (within... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Creationists Invent Their Own Mutation Rate!

  

  In September 2015 young earth creationist Dr Nathaniel Jeanson published a study attempting to show that molecular clocks and the mutation rate support the youn... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Making a Neanderthal Spear the Neanderthal Way

  

  How did the Neanderthals make a spear? That might seem like a fairly basic question, but it's surprisingly tough to answer. The fragments of tools left behind b... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Secret to Human Success is Being Social, Not Smart?

  Humans are one of the most successful species on the planet. Over the course of human evolution we developed several traits that helped us become so dominant. I... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Vagina Pheromones Mind-control Men?

  Pheromones are chemicals many primates produce to "communicate" with each other via smells. They can "talk" about how fertile they are, their age, if they want... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• DNA Study Confirms Noah Because It Gets the Science Wrong

  Answers in Genesis recently published two studies by Dr Jeanson in their scientific journal. Both focus on how evolution since Noah and his ark. Both are... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Chimps and Humans: Born Murderers?

  The gist of Wrangham's idea is that chimps and humans inherited their violent tendencies from a common ancestor. As such, they both have a similar predispositio... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Farming Evolved as It Leads to More Death, but Even More Babies

  When farming evolved it marked a huge step in human (pre)history. It forced us to settle down, developing a village into a city and - eventually -... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Creationists Use Miracles to Explain Why Their Predictions Fail

  Answers in Genesis has their own journal in which they publish all of the research done by creationists. Not surprisingly, it all vindicates creationism. But... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Stone Age Boats: Evidence of Pre-human Sea Travel

  Modern humans evolved in Africa. However, our ancestors didn't stick around and soon spread around the globe. Boats helped in this. However, we weren't the firs... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Humans Could Adapt to Climate Change Better Than Neanderthals

  The Neanderthals were very similar to us; to the point where we could even interbreed. Even their technology was equivalent to ours ( although that's because... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE