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• Early Humans Abandoned Europe Because Competition Was Too Stiff

  

  Atapuerca has been excavated for decades, revealing dozens of fossilsAtapuerca is an extremely important Spanish archaeological site, marking one of the first... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• EvoAnth Gets Published

  Earlier this year I wrote about how the large creationist organisations, like the Institute for Creation Research and Answers in Genesis, tend to present a... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Complete Homo Habilis Skull “discovered”

  

  Homo habilis could be one of the most important members of the human family; representing the start of our evolution towards the modern human body: walking... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lies Aren’t Always Bad

  

  Language has been a huge boon to our species but has also created a fairly major problem: it’s now really easy to weave an elaborate web of lies to trick someon... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Chimps & Humans Split Twice as Long Ago as Previously Thought (part 3)

  

  Most scientists think that the human family split from the chimpanzee family around 5 – 7 million years ago. However, advances in technology are allowing us to... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Answers in Genesis Fabricates “evolutionist” Claims

  

  Last week researchers published a paper claiming that our ancestors faces had evolve to survive getting punched in the face. I disagreed.Since then I’ve been... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Human Ancestors Caught Herpes off Chimps 1.6 Million Years Ago

  

  There are a lot of unique things about humans. One of the lesser known facts is that we’re the only primate species infected with two distinct types of the... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Update on How Humans Conquered the World: Early Hominins Had a Larger Territory...

  

  Humans have a long history of migration and expansion. From humble origins in Africa our family has spread throughout the world. Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Human Face Evolved to Take a Punch? Spoiler: No

  

  The human face evolved to take a punch! That’s the interesting (and slightly out-there) claim researchers made yesterday. And like many interesting (and... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Why You Shouldn’t Trust 96% of Evolutionary Psychology

  

  Over the past few million years evolution has moulded our bodies; changing us from an animal that looked very similar to an ape into one that looks slightly les... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Could Chimps Take Over the World?

  

  A chimp eating a monkey she killed with a spear. The beginning of the end for humans?Chimpanzees could pose stiff competition for humans. Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• New Book Teaches Young Children About Evolution

  

  Evolution – and human evolution in particular – is a subject I think is often under represented in our culture. Schools typically talk about it no more than... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• When Did Language Evolve?

  

  Language is one of our most unique and important attributes. No other form of animal communication comes close to conveying the sheer amount of information we... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Skin, Hair and Eye Colour Still Evolving as Recently as 4,000 Years Ago

  

  Humans have been living in Europe for almost 50,000 years. During this time they’ve developed a handful of adaptations for northern climates; the most notable o... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Neanderthals Were Just Really Old People: Disproven

  

  Whenever I write a post about Neanderthals I typically get three kinds of comments. There are the people who ask “just how smart were the Neanderthals?” After... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Chimp Makes Fire

  “Chimpanzee fire” is a name given to bioluminescent fungus that grows in some of the forests chimps live; giving off an eerie green glow that might make it... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Atheists View Other Atheists as Immoral

  

  Farming arose in the Near East around 10,000 years ago and, for the first time, this allowed for huge societies to flourish. Cities, armies and empires became... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Neanderthals Were Just as Smart as Us

  

  Humans are the last surviving members of our family, the hominins. Scientists have been trying to explain this fact for as long as its been known. Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Neanderthal Technology on Par with Humans

  

  The Neanderthals were a close relative of ours that lived in Europe from 350,000 years ago; until we turned up on the scene and they promptly went extinct... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Most Complete Paranthropus Boisei Skeleton Found

  

  The Paranthropines were a bizarre offshoot of the human family that lived from 2.7 – 1.3 million years ago. They were our cousins, who lived alongside... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE