Skeptophilia

I've written here before about the fact that the continents are in motion, something that is only not staggering because we've all ...

It's amazing how far human knowledge has come in only a hundred years. Consider the following about the year 1924: This is the year we w...

One of the things I learned from 32 years of teaching biology is that many non-human animals are way smarter than we give them credit for --...

Dear Readers: I'm going to be taking a couple of days off just to catch my breath.  Keep those topics coming!  The next Skeptophilia  po...

One of the shakiest concepts in biological anthropology is race . Pretty much all biologists agree that race , as usually defined, has very ...

Today's post combines archaeology, mythology, and an etymological mystery -- surely a recipe for something fascinating. I first ran into...

About fifteen years ago, I fulfilled a lifelong dream to go to Ecuador, a country I've been fascinated with since I was a kid.  I'm ...

It was in my evolutionary biology class in college that I ran into a concept that blew my mind, and in many ways still does. It was the idea...

I remember how blown away I was when I first saw British science historian James Burke's documentary After the Warming , shortly after i...

I think one of the uniting characteristics of the topics that interest me is that they all have something to do with altering our perception...

The field of forensic anthropology has made amazing strides in the past decades.  Fifty years ago, about all we could count on was identific...