Skeptophilia

New from the "Well, I can't see any way that could go wrong, do you?" department, we have: scientists growing Neanderthal brai...

When I had my DNA tested two years ago, I found out I have 330 distinctly Neanderthal markers in my genes.  This, apparently, is well above ...

Science has become the realm of specialists, and I am by nature a thoroughgoing generalist.  (Less kind words like "dilettante" an...

The Neanderthals have gotten an undeservedly bad reputation. "Neanderthal" has become an insult for someone perceived as dumb, cr...

The human drive to produce beauty is a curious thing, and one that science has thus far been unable to explain fully.  No less a luminary th...

Despite having taught genetics for 32 years, it still is astonishing to me that all of the genetic diversity of the 7.7-odd-billion humans o...

I was kind of tickled, when I got my "23 & Me" results back a couple of years ago, to find out that I had 284 identified Neand...

I love a good mystery, and mysteries abound regarding human prehistory. Of course, that's kind of self-evident, given that it's pr...

Last year, I did a 23 and Me  DNA test. Besides the not-particularly-earthshattering conclusion that I'm mostly French, Scottish, Germ...