Skeptophilia

Fighting Gullibility with Sarcasm, 6 days a week

Showing posts with label human evolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human evolution. Show all posts
Monday, December 29, 2025

Race to the bottom

›
The Greek philosopher Socrates made a name for himself -- as well as a good many enemies -- by pouncing on people who were using words like ...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

The skull in the cave

›
"If humans came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?" If there is one phrase that makes me want to throw a chair across the ...
1 comment:
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

A singular scientist

›
Science has become the realm of specialists, and I am by nature a thoroughgoing generalist.  (Less kind words like "dilettante" an...
1 comment:
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Out of Africa

›
In a rather startling coincidence, just yesterday I wrote about how much the course of human evolution was constrained by our evolving in a ...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021

The climatic teeter-totter

›
I remember how blown away I was when I first saw British science historian James Burke's documentary After the Warming , shortly after i...
Friday, August 30, 2019

A new twig on the family tree

›
My long-ago professor of evolutionary biology, Dr. Andrew Collins, once said, "The only reason humans came up with the concept of speci...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

A journey with the Denisovans

›
Every once in a while, I'll run across a piece of research that will make me think, "Ha!  How will the creationists explain that ?...
3 comments:
›
Home
View web version

About Me

Gordon Bonnet
I'm a fiction author and blogger who lives in the frozen wilds of Upstate New York. I am also an online writing coach/consultant -- ask if you want more details!
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.