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• First non-European Palaeolithic Cave Art Discovered. It’s Kinda Boring (which...

  

  In 1879 palaeolithic cave art was discovered in Altamira Cave, Spain. This marked the start of the scientific study of cave art in Europe; resulting in... Read more

  The 21 October 2014 by   Reprieve
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• What Did Prehistoric People Wear?

  

  It’s Wednesday, which means it’s the day I answer questions from you lovely focus. Today’s question comes from Laura, an English teacher who asks whether there... Read more

  The 01 October 2014 by   Reprieve
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• Climate Change Made Humans Successful

  

  Humans have absurdly large brains. It takes almost 1/5 of our daily calories1 (the equivalent of a big mac) just to keep it running; but the benefits of having... Read more

  The 02 October 2014 by   Reprieve
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• Creationist Origin Summit at Michigan State University

  

  ORiGiN SuMMiT Michigan State University November 1st, 2014 Business College Complex, Room N130 FREE ADMISSION website Meet the Speakers Dr. Gerald Bergman... Read more

  The 29 October 2014 by   Bjornostman
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• Human Evolution Weekly Update: Old DNA, Old Art & Sexy Men

  

  It’s the human evolution weekly update. No, this isn’t a review of how much we’ve evolved in the past week; but a review of cool discoveries about our... Read more

  The 24 October 2014 by   Reprieve
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• Evolution, Sex, and Mixability

  

  Last Friday Christos Papadimitriou gave a seminar at UC Santa Barbara in the Computer Science department. The title of his talk was Computational Insights and... Read more

  The 20 October 2014 by   Bjornostman
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• Ancient DNA Reveals How Often and When Humans & Neanderthals Interbred

  

  Modern humans evolved in Africa around 195,000 years ago, but soon spread across the world. However, we weren’t the first species of human to leave Africa and w... Read more

  The 23 October 2014 by   Reprieve
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• Chimps Seen Learning from One Another; Scientists Seen Running in Fear

  

  BEHOLD THE FACE OF YOUR DOOMSo now we’re all doomed.About a month ago I explained why chimps couldn’t take over the world. The crux of the issue was that they... Read more

  The 05 October 2014 by   Reprieve
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• What Affects Acceptance of Evolution?

  

  There's a creationist conference coming to Michigan State University this Saturday, so I and others have been thinking and talking about how to respond. Read more

  The 29 October 2014 by   Bjornostman
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• Our Big Brains Evolved to Make Tools

  

  Humans have very, very big brains. Bananas seem to be the standard unit of measurement on the internet now; and you’d need to eat about six of them a day just t... Read more

  The 07 October 2014 by   Reprieve
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