1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (315+ words) This article by Casey Luskin is republished from Science and Culture Today. It’s so simple it’s a no brainer (pun intended!): Bigger brains evolved to make us smarter, a trait that was gradually favored by natural selection over time. And…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (655+ words) Recently, I caught up with research on Neanderthal man again. Quite honestly, I was astonished at how much he has learned in the last few years. Dentistry, backpacking … there is even a debate about whether he had got religion before…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (417+ words) This republished article first appeared in Science and Culture Today The first thing that comes to mind in the context of intellectual capabilities is brain size. The paper notes that “brain volume for most of the Homo erectus fossils is…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (348+ words) At Science Alert, Michelle Starr reports, In a series of experiments designed to test the metacognition of these fascinating apes, psychologist Hanna Schleihauf of Utrecht University and her colleagues observed, for the first time, how chimpanzees can weigh different kinds…...

8+ mon, 3+ hour ago  (513+ words) The Neanderthals now exist as a separate group only in terms of what we can find out about them. We could say the same for a lot of groups. But we are still learning and surmising new things. Did genetic…...

8+ mon, 5+ hour ago  (699+ words) In an interesting short essay at The Conversation last month, University of Durham Paul Pettitt observed, Despite the fact that we know that Neanderthals were capable of producing jewellery and using coloured pigments, there has been much objection to the…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (472+ words) For nearly 300,000 years, early humans shaped stone tools with precision, even as they faced constant wildfires, severe droughts, and dramatic shifts in their environment. A new study published in Nature Communications reveals astonishing evidence of this long-lived technological tradition in…...

9+ mon, 3+ day ago  (487+ words) There’s been a flurry of news recently from human paleontology. It seems to me that it sheds far more light on our preoccupations than on our origins. Four examples: ● “Did humans learn to walk in trees?” (ScienceDaily, July 29, 2025): Humans are…...