Were Early Humans Engaged in Farming and Metallurgy? December 30, 2022 Question of the Week: The Bible says in Genesis 4 that Cain was a farmer and Abel a shepherd. History books and the Internet... Publications by Hugh Ross Read
Early Humans’ Complex Food Preparation Supports Exceptionalism December 19, 2022 Genesis 4:2–4 states that the first humans were cultivating crops and keeping flocks of animals. Until recently, anthropologists insisted that early humans were subsistence... Blog by Hugh Ross Read
A Remarkable Confluence of Genetic Changes Made Humans Exceptional December 7, 2022 As a chemistry major in college and then a biochemistry student in graduate school, I had precious little time to watch TV. There were several... Blog by Fazale Rana Read
Ancient Surgical Amputation Affirms Human Exceptionalism October 24, 2022 When did humans acquire the knowledge and skills to perform complex surgeries? The prevailing view among anthropologists has been that advanced surgical procedures are... Blog by Hugh Ross Read
Humans’ Chewing Advantage Supports Exceptionalism September 19, 2022 Scientists have learned that humans spend much less time chewing food than did the hominins—a find that carries implications for design.Animals began chewing their... Blog by Hugh Ross Read
Key Difference in Developing Human and Neanderthal Brains September 14, 2022 Good things take time. Or at least that is what the adage claims. It's true when it comes to whiskey. Good whiskey takes time.... Blog by Fazale Rana Read
Critical Review: In Quest of the Historical Adam July 20, 2022 When the first edition of Who Was Adam? was published in 2005, very few evangelicals and conservative Christians made any real attempt at integrating the... Blog by Fazale Rana Read
Should Chimpanzee Behavior Challenge Human Exceptionalism? April 27, 2022 When our kids were little, I always enjoyed our family trips to the zoo. As they grew older, our zoo visits became much less... Blog by Fazale Rana Read
How We Use Energy Points to Human Exceptionalism February 21, 2022 It's easy for humans to take food availability for granted in our modern world, but the acquisition of food resources in human history has... Blog by Hugh Ross Read
Homo bodoensis Discovery Muddles Human Evolutionary Models February 2, 2022 As I write this article, we are entering the winter months in Southern California. I know, I know. For anyone who has ever lived in... Blog by Fazale Rana Read
Brain Organoids Cultivate the Case for Human Exceptionalism January 19, 2022 Mel Brooks’s horror comedy Young Frankenstein is one of my all-time favorite movies. Perhaps my favorite scene in the movie has Igor (pronounced EYE-gor)—played brilliantly by Marty... Blog by Fazale Rana Read
Finding Migration Routes for Early Humans September 27, 2021 A fossil discovery of an extinct rat species may provide evidence for early human migration routes and for the location of the Garden of... Blog by Hugh Ross Read