13+ hour, 41+ min ago  (379+ words) Editor's note: We are delighted to welcome the new book by award-winning British engineer and designer Stuart Burgess,Ultimate Engineering: An Engineer Investigates the Biomechanics of the Human Body(Discovery Institute Press),with an excerpt from Chapter 1. There is a…...

4+ week, 13+ hour ago  (642+ words) Here are new findings about a group of undersea stars: sea turtles. There are seven species of sea turtles in the world today, all beautifully designed and, sadly, all endangered. Consider first, appropriately, the enigma of origins. Do we see…...

1+ mon, 21+ hour ago  (265+ words) Our colleague'David Coppedge calls it "historical racism,the evolutionary blunder of wanting to create hierarchies of intelligence, or how "evolved past human groups may have been, in particular Neanderthals and Denisovans. Coppedge summons us to greater sensitivity and generosity:' The…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (321+ words) They fall somewhere within that tangle of groups that ultimately gave rise to Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern people. That's very fair, but does it mean they were anything but basically human? Cue Jerry Coyne's'Why Evolution Is True'blog, which'commented'just a few…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (760+ words) The patterns of disparity observed during the Cambrian pose two unresolved questions. First, what evolutionary process produced the gaps between the morphologies of major clades? Second, why have the morphological boundaries of these body plans remained relatively stable over the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (441+ words) When I graduated from medical school many years ago, I remember being told that in about ten years, half of what I had been taught would be outdated, and the other half would be dead wrong. Being a young, newly…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (874+ words) Evolutionary anthropologists need to stop putting people groups into "less evolved" categories. It's a form of historical racism." Source Making the rounds on the mainstream media recently has been a story that "lead exposure helped shape human intelligence" (Science Daily)....

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (619+ 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. One theory,…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (622+ words) Despite the fact that we know that Neanderthals were capable of producing jewellery and using coloured pigments, there has been much objection to the notion that they explored deep caves and left art on the walls. But recent work has…...

4+ mon, 15+ hour ago  (436+ words) Does this discovery suggest that the principles of compound vision emerged nearly half a billion years ago as the authors concluded? Source Trilobites, extinct marine animals that first appear in the Cambrian rock layers, glided across ancient ocean floors. Typically,…...